Hello, I hope you can help me with the mess I've gotten into. I've been going around in circles with this all week, trying all sorts of suggestions from your site and elsewhere and getting nowhere.
I have Windows 7 installed on a Sata drive on my pc, and I want to be able to use XP as well. I've added a second hard drive from my old pc using ide, reformatted and installed XP on it. If I disconnect the Sata drive I can boot into XP and it seems fine. But with the Sata drive connected I can't get into XP at all, though I can access the drive through Win 7.
I have a menu created by EasyBCD and it boots into 7 but when I choose XP I get "invalid boot.ini file Booting from c:\windows Ntdetect failed".
I have boot.ini, ntdetect.com and ntldr files on the xp drive G: and also on the System Reserved drive which I have named I: - I think I copied one set of these files from the other following instructions from this site, but it seems EasyBCD has changed the one on I: ?
View Settings in EasyBCD are as follows:
There are a total of 2 entries listed in the bootloader.
Default: Windows 7 Ultimate (recovered)
Timeout: 30 seconds
Boot Drive: I:\
Entry #1
Name: Windows 7 Ultimate (recovered)
BCD ID: (current)
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Entry #2
Name: Microsoft Windows XP
BCD ID: {7440b175-beab-11e5-957e-d415e800b2d3}
Drive: I:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\ntldr
I can't get your site working properly in Firefox or IE so I'm typing all this on my iphone. I will try to add a screenshot of Disk Management asap, I'd rather not have to type that out too!
I have Windows 7 installed on a Sata drive on my pc, and I want to be able to use XP as well. I've added a second hard drive from my old pc using ide, reformatted and installed XP on it. If I disconnect the Sata drive I can boot into XP and it seems fine. But with the Sata drive connected I can't get into XP at all, though I can access the drive through Win 7.
I have a menu created by EasyBCD and it boots into 7 but when I choose XP I get "invalid boot.ini file Booting from c:\windows Ntdetect failed".
I have boot.ini, ntdetect.com and ntldr files on the xp drive G: and also on the System Reserved drive which I have named I: - I think I copied one set of these files from the other following instructions from this site, but it seems EasyBCD has changed the one on I: ?
View Settings in EasyBCD are as follows:
There are a total of 2 entries listed in the bootloader.
Default: Windows 7 Ultimate (recovered)
Timeout: 30 seconds
Boot Drive: I:\
Entry #1
Name: Windows 7 Ultimate (recovered)
BCD ID: (current)
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Entry #2
Name: Microsoft Windows XP
BCD ID: {7440b175-beab-11e5-957e-d415e800b2d3}
Drive: I:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\ntldr
I can't get your site working properly in Firefox or IE so I'm typing all this on my iphone. I will try to add a screenshot of Disk Management asap, I'd rather not have to type that out too!