Problem with Dual Boot Windows XP and Windows 7
H,i I hope you can help me. I originally installed Windows XP 32. bit SP3 on a 300 GB SATA drive. It worked fine. I decided to try the Windows 7 Beta on a separate 30 GB IDE Drive. It too worked ok.
I'm now getting the message that the IDE drive is failing and to back it up. I want to remove the dual boot option at startup that I believe is on the SATA drive. I've tried running EasyBCD on the IDE drive with Windows 7 but I get the following sequences of error messages: " Valid BCP Registry Not Detected." EasyBCD offers to correct the problem. Next error is: "Unfortunately EasyBCD could not automatically detect the drive letter of your boot device... to proceed please enter the letter of your boot drive below.." The only option is the C drive. EasyBCD is now trying to creat the BCD registry from Scratch.... The the final error message "The store import has failed. The requested system device cannot be found."
When I boot into Windows 7 Only 1 drive is seen in the Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer Management\Disk Management. The IDE drive. Since this drive is failing, I'll only use XP on this computer, but I would like to change the MBR of the SATA drive back to its original state i.e. just directly booting XP with out the options to chose Windows 7/ Older operating System (XP) at the startup
Is there a way that I can use EasyBCD on the SATA drvie with XP to do this? Thanks.
John
H,i I hope you can help me. I originally installed Windows XP 32. bit SP3 on a 300 GB SATA drive. It worked fine. I decided to try the Windows 7 Beta on a separate 30 GB IDE Drive. It too worked ok.
I'm now getting the message that the IDE drive is failing and to back it up. I want to remove the dual boot option at startup that I believe is on the SATA drive. I've tried running EasyBCD on the IDE drive with Windows 7 but I get the following sequences of error messages: " Valid BCP Registry Not Detected." EasyBCD offers to correct the problem. Next error is: "Unfortunately EasyBCD could not automatically detect the drive letter of your boot device... to proceed please enter the letter of your boot drive below.." The only option is the C drive. EasyBCD is now trying to creat the BCD registry from Scratch.... The the final error message "The store import has failed. The requested system device cannot be found."
When I boot into Windows 7 Only 1 drive is seen in the Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer Management\Disk Management. The IDE drive. Since this drive is failing, I'll only use XP on this computer, but I would like to change the MBR of the SATA drive back to its original state i.e. just directly booting XP with out the options to chose Windows 7/ Older operating System (XP) at the startup
Is there a way that I can use EasyBCD on the SATA drvie with XP to do this? Thanks.
John