Forgotten it!

LorinM

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I have forgotten what I need to know to boot my PC.
C: = XP Pro ~250G
D: = XP Pro Data ~250G
E: = Win 7 Pro ~500G
I see files.
PC boots to XP.

I think that I had dual boot working a long time ago. EasyBCD v2.2 is just now loaded on the XP OS to look at.

I have NAS drives showing and internet access.

1) is the boot selection automatically shown at boot? i do not see it.
Is there a key sequence I need to use?

2) if the boot has been messed up how do I use EasyBCD from XP to get the dual boot back? I tried looking around the help files and the program but I am stumped.
Most of what I try says I need to do it from Win 7 but I can't get to Win 7.
 
XP (C: and D:smile: on one disk. 250G + 250G
Win 7 on a different disk. 500G
So are you suggesting that I try to change BIOS to make the second drive the first drive?
Will try it tomorrow.

I kept trying and finally EasyBDC allowed me to select a XP and WIN7 boot.
All was grayed out until I do not know what.
Did I do something to enable EasyBCD to let me select drives?
I tried to create a new boot.ini but it never took.
I opened the Boot.Ini on the XP drive where I did create it one time as shown by the date-time and in the file it said EasyBCD created it. But in the Boot.Ini file only the XP drive was there. I could never get EasyBCD to create if with Win7.
And when I booted a message on the screen said that the Boot.Ini was bad and it still booted to C: and Win XP.
I tried to manually edit the Boot.Ini based on the EasyBCD website but I could never get it to start without the bad Boot.Ini message.
 
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