Hello to all
I have used EasyBCD to dual boot Vista and Linux in the past and it’s worked just fine. But know I need to dual boot Vista and Windows Server 2003 on complete SEAPARTE Hard drives which complete SEAPARTE Raid controllers and I am running into problems.
First off I am running two SATA drives raid 0 together on the Intel® ICH9 controller and two separate SATA drives raid 0 on a JMicron jmb363 raid controller (this is on an Asus Maximum Extreme motherboard). I installed Vista first on Drive 1 (which is the Intel ICH9 controller) In Vista it can see the Drive 0 (JMicron jmb363) just fine. So I install W2k3 on Drive 0. I should mention that I do have to go into the BIOS to change the Hard Drive settings to boot the Jmicron controller before I install W2k3. Then when I want to boot Vista I switch it back to the ICH9 controller. This all works fine, I am able to boot into either OS by toggling the BIOS settings.
I install EasyBCD 1.7.1 on Vista and of course it sees Drive 1 (which is the Vista install) just fine on drive letter c:. It all sees Drive 0 (which is the W2k3 install) just fine on drive letter H:. When I add the legacy OS (W2k3) it defaults and grays out to driver letter C:. I am assuming because it thinks that I have both OSes on a single hard drive. I then have to go in and edit it to select drive H. When I boot up it says “Boot.ini missing, booting from C:\windows\, NTDECT failed". After doing some reading I discovered that the boot.ini, ntdect.com and ntldr files should be on the root directory of my C: drive (which in my case is the ICH9 controller Drive 1.) After I copy those files I then get “ntoskrnl.exe is either missing or corrupt in the Windows\system32 directory" error message. I check the directories and both drives have the files. At this point I’m at a lost.:brows:
Remember this same configuration worked fine when I had Linux instead of W2k3 and using the Grub tab. Is EasyBCD able to boot two Windows OSes on completely separate hard drives and on completely separate controller chips? Thanks in advance for any help.
David
I have used EasyBCD to dual boot Vista and Linux in the past and it’s worked just fine. But know I need to dual boot Vista and Windows Server 2003 on complete SEAPARTE Hard drives which complete SEAPARTE Raid controllers and I am running into problems.
First off I am running two SATA drives raid 0 together on the Intel® ICH9 controller and two separate SATA drives raid 0 on a JMicron jmb363 raid controller (this is on an Asus Maximum Extreme motherboard). I installed Vista first on Drive 1 (which is the Intel ICH9 controller) In Vista it can see the Drive 0 (JMicron jmb363) just fine. So I install W2k3 on Drive 0. I should mention that I do have to go into the BIOS to change the Hard Drive settings to boot the Jmicron controller before I install W2k3. Then when I want to boot Vista I switch it back to the ICH9 controller. This all works fine, I am able to boot into either OS by toggling the BIOS settings.
I install EasyBCD 1.7.1 on Vista and of course it sees Drive 1 (which is the Vista install) just fine on drive letter c:. It all sees Drive 0 (which is the W2k3 install) just fine on drive letter H:. When I add the legacy OS (W2k3) it defaults and grays out to driver letter C:. I am assuming because it thinks that I have both OSes on a single hard drive. I then have to go in and edit it to select drive H. When I boot up it says “Boot.ini missing, booting from C:\windows\, NTDECT failed". After doing some reading I discovered that the boot.ini, ntdect.com and ntldr files should be on the root directory of my C: drive (which in my case is the ICH9 controller Drive 1.) After I copy those files I then get “ntoskrnl.exe is either missing or corrupt in the Windows\system32 directory" error message. I check the directories and both drives have the files. At this point I’m at a lost.:brows:
Remember this same configuration worked fine when I had Linux instead of W2k3 and using the Grub tab. Is EasyBCD able to boot two Windows OSes on completely separate hard drives and on completely separate controller chips? Thanks in advance for any help.
David
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