I had XP and Win7 working together in dual-boot. But I had to reinstall XP later because of other issues. So, no more dual-boot.
I tried to get dual-boot back by using EasyBCD, but when I chose the Win7 installation at boot, got the screen announcing that <Windows failed to start>.
The fix that Windows recommended was to use the Win7 install disk boot and then choose <Repair Computer>. I went as far as letting it give me the details of what it wanted to do to fix it. It showed that it would repair the Windows Boot Manager and then add the start-up option: "Windows Recovery Environment" with the path to "partition E".
The Win7 installation is on single-partition drive F, so that worries me - though I remember that EasyBCD documentation pointed out that the letters and physical disks don't necessarily match up.
Is it safe to let Win7 go ahead and do the repair? If the Win7 installation is damaged and won't start anyway, can I still get into XP (the XP installation was not mentioned during the Repair Computer beginning process, so I'm assuming it won't show up on the boot menu)?
If there's no option to boot into XP, can I repair the MBR and XP boot.ini to boot into XP by using the Recovery Console on the XP disk? Or no? Or something else?
TIA
I tried to get dual-boot back by using EasyBCD, but when I chose the Win7 installation at boot, got the screen announcing that <Windows failed to start>.
The fix that Windows recommended was to use the Win7 install disk boot and then choose <Repair Computer>. I went as far as letting it give me the details of what it wanted to do to fix it. It showed that it would repair the Windows Boot Manager and then add the start-up option: "Windows Recovery Environment" with the path to "partition E".
The Win7 installation is on single-partition drive F, so that worries me - though I remember that EasyBCD documentation pointed out that the letters and physical disks don't necessarily match up.
Is it safe to let Win7 go ahead and do the repair? If the Win7 installation is damaged and won't start anyway, can I still get into XP (the XP installation was not mentioned during the Repair Computer beginning process, so I'm assuming it won't show up on the boot menu)?
If there's no option to boot into XP, can I repair the MBR and XP boot.ini to boot into XP by using the Recovery Console on the XP disk? Or no? Or something else?
TIA