Hello, I've tried everything with Easy BCD to get this to work and it's driving me crazy! I've read all the tutorials and all the FAQs but to my dismay I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. So here goes:
I installed XP after I had my Vista 32 Ultimate installed on my main drive C:
I did this by installing the XP onto a sata raid 0 I created with my ASUS mobo.
I set the drive with the vista installed on it as the first boot drive in the bios and the XP as the second.
I installed Easy BCD on the vista drive, added an xp entry and then restarted.
When the vista boot loader came up it gave me the two option I had set up. Selecting vista booted vista and when I restarted to try xp it went and said hal.dll was corrupt or missing please reinstall hal.dll or something. Anyone that can help please do before I go bald from ripping my hair out :brows:
Here were my setting in Easy BCD:
Note: "When I'm in vista the drive with xp shows up as D: in My Computer"
There are a total of 2 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader.
Bootloader Timeout: 5 seconds.
Default OS: Windows Vista
Entry #1
Name: Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows
Entry #2
Name: Microsoft Windows XP
BCD ID: {a82127ce-c3ea-11dc-b407-001a92974197}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \NTLDR
I installed XP after I had my Vista 32 Ultimate installed on my main drive C:
I did this by installing the XP onto a sata raid 0 I created with my ASUS mobo.
I set the drive with the vista installed on it as the first boot drive in the bios and the XP as the second.
I installed Easy BCD on the vista drive, added an xp entry and then restarted.
When the vista boot loader came up it gave me the two option I had set up. Selecting vista booted vista and when I restarted to try xp it went and said hal.dll was corrupt or missing please reinstall hal.dll or something. Anyone that can help please do before I go bald from ripping my hair out :brows:
Here were my setting in Easy BCD:
Note: "When I'm in vista the drive with xp shows up as D: in My Computer"
There are a total of 2 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader.
Bootloader Timeout: 5 seconds.
Default OS: Windows Vista
Entry #1
Name: Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows
Entry #2
Name: Microsoft Windows XP
BCD ID: {a82127ce-c3ea-11dc-b407-001a92974197}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \NTLDR
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