I am totally new to EasyBCD, so forgive me in advance.
I have two "already installed" OS's residing on two separate disks, one W7 and the other XP. As an after thought I found out about EasyBCD, downloaded and installed it. It doesn't seem to work for me. Every time I select Windows XP in the boot menu, I am getting one error message or another. Having installed EasyBCD on W7, I tried adding a 2nd entry for XP. The boot up menu shows both OS's, XP fails. I tried using the automatic detection settings and each of the available disk Disk partitions on the XP drive. XP just doesn't boot, but W7 works fine.
After doing some reading, I discovered that I should have installed the first OS, then the second OS on the second without disconnecting the first drive. But I didn't. In one of the forums/wiki's, I saw a statement that it was "incredibly difficult" to make it work in the scenario that I find myself in.
However, even though incredibly difficult, are there instructions on how to go about this?
I know, I know, it appears that I might have screwed up, but any instructions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
2L
I have two "already installed" OS's residing on two separate disks, one W7 and the other XP. As an after thought I found out about EasyBCD, downloaded and installed it. It doesn't seem to work for me. Every time I select Windows XP in the boot menu, I am getting one error message or another. Having installed EasyBCD on W7, I tried adding a 2nd entry for XP. The boot up menu shows both OS's, XP fails. I tried using the automatic detection settings and each of the available disk Disk partitions on the XP drive. XP just doesn't boot, but W7 works fine.
After doing some reading, I discovered that I should have installed the first OS, then the second OS on the second without disconnecting the first drive. But I didn't. In one of the forums/wiki's, I saw a statement that it was "incredibly difficult" to make it work in the scenario that I find myself in.
However, even though incredibly difficult, are there instructions on how to go about this?
I know, I know, it appears that I might have screwed up, but any instructions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
2L