SorryImStupid
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Hello.
I have a computer with 2 sata drives, the first one has vista on it in the first partition, no OS in the second partition and a buncha empty space unpartitioned.
I also have another drive with win8 installed, then XP installed afterwards in the second (or third, if you count the system reserve created by win8) partition. I used easybcd to add XP into win8 bootloading process. My second harddrive had a little bit of drive error and XP, which I was using, crashed. At this point I used ddrescue from a linux rescue cd to clone my XP partition into a (third) partition I created in the first drive, I did this to save the data, since I didn't want to run chkdsk as running it on a disk with read/write errors might cause even more damage. So after I did that, I went into win8 (on the second partition, on which I had installed easyBCD) and used it to add winxp (which i had copied to the third patition of the first drive) to the vista (1st partition 1st drive) bootloader.
When I tried to boot xp (3rd partition 1st drive) from the vista loader, it said "invalid boot.ini; loading from c:\windows".
How should I fix this.
ps. the vista (1st partition 1st drive) can not be booted into, because of some damage to some registry entries.
Thank you.
Addendum
I used easyBCD 2.2
I have a computer with 2 sata drives, the first one has vista on it in the first partition, no OS in the second partition and a buncha empty space unpartitioned.
I also have another drive with win8 installed, then XP installed afterwards in the second (or third, if you count the system reserve created by win8) partition. I used easybcd to add XP into win8 bootloading process. My second harddrive had a little bit of drive error and XP, which I was using, crashed. At this point I used ddrescue from a linux rescue cd to clone my XP partition into a (third) partition I created in the first drive, I did this to save the data, since I didn't want to run chkdsk as running it on a disk with read/write errors might cause even more damage. So after I did that, I went into win8 (on the second partition, on which I had installed easyBCD) and used it to add winxp (which i had copied to the third patition of the first drive) to the vista (1st partition 1st drive) bootloader.
When I tried to boot xp (3rd partition 1st drive) from the vista loader, it said "invalid boot.ini; loading from c:\windows".
How should I fix this.
ps. the vista (1st partition 1st drive) can not be booted into, because of some damage to some registry entries.
Thank you.
Addendum
I used easyBCD 2.2