Dual boot problem Windows 7 and XP
- Thread starter pdr
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Hello, pdr. Welcome to NST.
You need to copy over your 3 boot files, boot.ini, ntldr, and NTDETECT.COM, from your XP root to your "system" one. To figure out which partition is your "system" drive, open up Disk Management, and check to see which one has the "system" notation by it.
GL and let us know how it goes.
-Coolname007
You need to copy over your 3 boot files, boot.ini, ntldr, and NTDETECT.COM, from your XP root to your "system" one. To figure out which partition is your "system" drive, open up Disk Management, and check to see which one has the "system" notation by it.
GL and let us know how it goes.
-Coolname007
Aren't you forgetting something?... He will need to copy over his 3 XP boot files into his "system" root, before he sees the entry for XP he creates with EasyBCD (or added automatically by the Win 7 setup) work...unless of course the process is different for Win 7 than Vista, which last time I checked, they are the same.
-Coolname007
He will need to copy over his 3 XP boot files into his "system" root, before he sees the entry for XP he creates with EasyBCD (or added automatically by the Win 7 setup) work...unless of course the process is different for Win 7 than Vista, which last time I checked, they are the same. -Coolname007
You will need to copy over your 3 XP boot files from C:/ (or whatever drive letter your XP drive is), instead of from C:/Program Files for example. Copy them over to whatever drive your "system" drive is...and put them in the "root" as well. That is simply what the "root" of a partition means.
GL and if you have any more questions, then don't hesitate to ask !
-Coolname007
EDIT: And you will need to unhide the system files first by going to Control Panel>View>Folder Options>and unselecting "Hide system files" and selecting "Show Hidden Files and Folders".
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He is using Win 7, not Vista, though, Justin...
And I still think he will need to have the XP boot files on the "system" root before the entry created in the Win 7 bootloader for XP will work...
-Coolname007
Copy them over to whatever drive your "system" drive is...and put them in the "root" as well. That is simply what the "root" of a partition means.GL and if you have any more questions, then don't hesitate to ask !
-Coolname007
EDIT: And you will need to unhide the system files first by going to Control Panel>View>Folder Options>and unselecting "Hide system files" and selecting "Show Hidden Files and Folders".
Addendum:
He is using Win 7, not Vista, though, Justin...
And I still think he will need to have the XP boot files on the "system" root before the entry created in the Win 7 bootloader for XP will work...
-Coolname007
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pdr...here is a list of steps you need to do, in order to get an entry for XP created in the Win 7 bootloader by EasyBCD work:
Go to Start>right click on "Computer">select "Manage">select "Disk Management" in the left panel>Look at your drives listed in there, and figure out which drive letter is XP and which is your "system" partition>Unhide the system files, and show the hidden files and folder in the Folder Options in the Control Panel (located at: Start>Control Panel>Folder Options)>Go to "Computer" (Start>Computer)>Copy over from your XP partition (whatever drive letter it is) into that "system" partition...making sure to put it in the "root" (first location you get to, when clicking on a particular drive in "Computer").
And then we can work from there.
-Coolname007
Go to Start>right click on "Computer">select "Manage">select "Disk Management" in the left panel>Look at your drives listed in there, and figure out which drive letter is XP and which is your "system" partition>Unhide the system files, and show the hidden files and folder in the Folder Options in the Control Panel (located at: Start>Control Panel>Folder Options)>Go to "Computer" (Start>Computer)>Copy over from your XP partition (whatever drive letter it is) into that "system" partition...making sure to put it in the "root" (first location you get to, when clicking on a particular drive in "Computer").
And then we can work from there.
-Coolname007
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pdr: copy "boot.ini" (in Win 7, it would probably be seen simply as "Boot"), "ntldr", and "NTDETECT.COM" from D (just D, and not D:/Program Files, or whatever...) into C (and not C:/Program Files...etc.). Get the picture?
But in order to see those files, you will need to first go to Start>Control Panel>Folder Options>View and select the "Show hidden files and folders" option, and uncheck the "Hide the system files" option. And then you should be able to see the 3 boot files I mentioned, and you can simply copy them over into your "system" root: (C)
I hope you get it now.
-Coolname007
But in order to see those files, you will need to first go to Start>Control Panel>Folder Options>View and select the "Show hidden files and folders" option, and uncheck the "Hide the system files" option.
And then you should be able to see the 3 boot files I mentioned, and you can simply copy them over into your "system" root: (C)I hope you get it now.
-Coolname007
Ok...so now open up EasyBCD, go to the Add/Remove Entries section, and under the Windows tab, select the "Windows Nt/2K/XP/2k3" (or something like that) option in the drop-down menu, and then click on the Add Entry button...done! Next, go to the View Settings section in EasyBCD, and post what you see there, so we can tell if the entry you created is pointed at C:/ instead of at D:/ and so forth.
-Coolname007
Next, go to the View Settings section in EasyBCD, and post what you see there, so we can tell if the entry you created is pointed at C:/ instead of at D:/ and so forth. -Coolname007
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