First off, let me start saying I'm sorry for yet another Dual Boot thread, I know there are lots. I've went through several trying possible solutions posted by everyone but to no avail.
I bought a new computer with two hardrives, so I planned to install XP and 7 and dual boot. I'm pretty windows savvy so I knew it was best to first install XP and then 7, since XP would brick (but could be fixed) the Windows 7 boot.
So I installed XP on one of my HDs, left everything working good and then installed 7 on my other HD.
After booting up 7 it correctly recognized I had XP already installed and gave me the 'Earlier Version of Windows' in the dual boot window after POST. Great.
This is where the problem starts, when I select to boot from XP, I get a blank screen and the computer restarts. W7 works fine.
Read SEVERAL sites about it (including the wiki here at neosmart) and tried several things already but just can't get this bastard to work.
1. Tried adding XP entry through EasyBCD, but get the same results.
2. Tried messing around with boot.ini, tried SEVERAL rdisk/multi/disk/partition combinations to no avail. I get either 'missing ntoskrnel.exe' and 'hardware configuration problem' messages (maybe didn't get the right combination yet, but it's tough to get it right)
3. Tried booting from W7 DVD but instead of it giving me the 'Repair Computer' option, it does not recognize there is a windows already installed and just acts like it's a fresh install (which gets me wondering why it's not recognizing)
4. Tried also pressing F8 with the WIndows 7 option selected at dual boot and selecting 'Repair Computer', I'm able to get to the same menu I would if I used option #3 above, and selected Repair Startup (something like that) but it says something like 'a new peripheral was added to the system, please restart' (can't remember exactly). Which also gets me wondering why the heck it's happening.
My XP hd has the necessary boot files in it (ntlr etc) since it was booting fine before I installed W7.
Any ideas?!
I bought a new computer with two hardrives, so I planned to install XP and 7 and dual boot. I'm pretty windows savvy so I knew it was best to first install XP and then 7, since XP would brick (but could be fixed) the Windows 7 boot.
So I installed XP on one of my HDs, left everything working good and then installed 7 on my other HD.
After booting up 7 it correctly recognized I had XP already installed and gave me the 'Earlier Version of Windows' in the dual boot window after POST. Great.
This is where the problem starts, when I select to boot from XP, I get a blank screen and the computer restarts. W7 works fine.
Read SEVERAL sites about it (including the wiki here at neosmart) and tried several things already but just can't get this bastard to work.
1. Tried adding XP entry through EasyBCD, but get the same results.
2. Tried messing around with boot.ini, tried SEVERAL rdisk/multi/disk/partition combinations to no avail. I get either 'missing ntoskrnel.exe' and 'hardware configuration problem' messages (maybe didn't get the right combination yet, but it's tough to get it right)
3. Tried booting from W7 DVD but instead of it giving me the 'Repair Computer' option, it does not recognize there is a windows already installed and just acts like it's a fresh install (which gets me wondering why it's not recognizing)
4. Tried also pressing F8 with the WIndows 7 option selected at dual boot and selecting 'Repair Computer', I'm able to get to the same menu I would if I used option #3 above, and selected Repair Startup (something like that) but it says something like 'a new peripheral was added to the system, please restart' (can't remember exactly). Which also gets me wondering why the heck it's happening.
My XP hd has the necessary boot files in it (ntlr etc) since it was booting fine before I installed W7.
Any ideas?!
