Hi guys,
a serious question. I have a bit of a problem. I originally had XP and wanted to install 7 as dual boot. Thought it would go smoothly, but no. Here's the situation.
Windows XP was originally installed, on partition C (partition D is on same hard disk). Besides that I have four more hard disks (one partition each) which were (in XP) E, F, G and H.
I cleared/formated partition D and installed Win7 on it, and then everything got turned around.
1. 7 did not detect the previous XP and create a dual boot.
2. The partition that was D (on which 7 is installed) became C, C (with XP) became E, and E became D.
I used EasyBCD to add the XP to the boot menu, but it doesn't seem to work. When I try to load the added XP the PC just reboots. (When adding the new entry it detects my XP as being on partition H but its not, and even if I change it to the correct one, it still doesn't work)
Any tips and comments will be greatly appreciated.
On a side note, I wonder if I can switch the drive letters of C, D and E around to make it like it was in XP... How will Windows 7 react if I change it's drive letter from C to D?!
Note to moderators, I just noticed that I put this thread in the wrong forum, please move it to the EasyBCD support.
Addendum:
Here is some additional info on my problem.
1. Again to note that both partitions with XP and W7 are on the same hard disk.
2. When I remove XP in EasyBCD and add it, it detects it on partition H (but it is in partition D really). It doesn't work with H, nor if I change it to C or D.
3. Here is the debug info from my EBCD
I notice I have "bootmgr" and "bootsect.bak" files on my H drive (which is data storage [music] only). I don't know how they got there, or if it's important.
Addendum:
Serves me right for not reading through all the FAQs first. I guess we all start reverting to children when we feel helpless.
My problem was that Win7 installed boot files on partition H (god knows why), so I had to move ntldr, boot.ini and ntdetect.com to that partition, and modify the rdisk in boot.ini.
I shuffled drive letters in W7 so 7 was on C and XP on D. When I boot to XP it's the other way around. But, I can live with that, if they can
One question though, is it possible to move the boot loader files from partition H to either one of the windows partitions (C, D ... XP/7)? I'm asking because I just keep music on H and maybe I'd like to disconnect it some day to put in another PC.
a serious question. I have a bit of a problem. I originally had XP and wanted to install 7 as dual boot. Thought it would go smoothly, but no. Here's the situation.
Windows XP was originally installed, on partition C (partition D is on same hard disk). Besides that I have four more hard disks (one partition each) which were (in XP) E, F, G and H.
I cleared/formated partition D and installed Win7 on it, and then everything got turned around.
1. 7 did not detect the previous XP and create a dual boot.
2. The partition that was D (on which 7 is installed) became C, C (with XP) became E, and E became D.
I used EasyBCD to add the XP to the boot menu, but it doesn't seem to work. When I try to load the added XP the PC just reboots. (When adding the new entry it detects my XP as being on partition H but its not, and even if I change it to the correct one, it still doesn't work)
Any tips and comments will be greatly appreciated.
On a side note, I wonder if I can switch the drive letters of C, D and E around to make it like it was in XP... How will Windows 7 react if I change it's drive letter from C to D?!
Note to moderators, I just noticed that I put this thread in the wrong forum, please move it to the EasyBCD support.
Addendum:
Here is some additional info on my problem.
1. Again to note that both partitions with XP and W7 are on the same hard disk.
2. When I remove XP in EasyBCD and add it, it detects it on partition H (but it is in partition D really). It doesn't work with H, nor if I change it to C or D.
3. Here is the debug info from my EBCD
Code:
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=H:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
default {51083d81-37d0-11df-9e84-b694e8c66b5f}
resumeobject {51083d80-37d0-11df-9e84-b694e8c66b5f}
displayorder {51083d81-37d0-11df-9e84-b694e8c66b5f}
{51083d85-37d0-11df-9e84-b694e8c66b5f}
toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {51083d81-37d0-11df-9e84-b694e8c66b5f}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
recoverysequence {51083d82-37d0-11df-9e84-b694e8c66b5f}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {51083d80-37d0-11df-9e84-b694e8c66b5f}
nx OptIn
Real-mode Boot Sector
---------------------
identifier {51083d85-37d0-11df-9e84-b694e8c66b5f}
device partition=H:
path \NTLDR
description Microsoft WindowsI notice I have "bootmgr" and "bootsect.bak" files on my H drive (which is data storage [music] only). I don't know how they got there, or if it's important.
Addendum:
Serves me right for not reading through all the FAQs first. I guess we all start reverting to children when we feel helpless.
My problem was that Win7 installed boot files on partition H (god knows why), so I had to move ntldr, boot.ini and ntdetect.com to that partition, and modify the rdisk in boot.ini.
I shuffled drive letters in W7 so 7 was on C and XP on D. When I boot to XP it's the other way around. But, I can live with that, if they can
One question though, is it possible to move the boot loader files from partition H to either one of the windows partitions (C, D ... XP/7)? I'm asking because I just keep music on H and maybe I'd like to disconnect it some day to put in another PC.
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