Hello people, I am fairly new into the world of dual booting, as I have always thought it is scary Still, I now feel the urge to run Vista and XP on the same machine, and hence I am taking my first steps into the unsure world of rewriting the MBR....:huh:
A quick overview of my setup:
I have always had one IDE disk in this pc, with 2 partitions. Currently I have windows Vista installed on the C:\ partition of that, and D:\ is still my data drive.
Now, I wanted to add good old XP (since some programs dont run well on Vista) and have added a small IDE disk to provide a space for that. Installed XP on it, and the following occurs:
XP only boots, and drives are arranged like: c: Vista, d: XP, eata
Repaired Vista booting with the Vista DVD:
Vista only boots, and drives arranged like: c: Vista, d: Data e&f:CD drives g:XP
Used EasyBCD 1.5, added an XP record for G:\, now this will give the following message:
"Windows failed to start" etc etc...
File: \ntldr
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.
Tried adding an XP record for D:\, same story!
I've read your topic here: http://neosmart.net/forums/index.php?gettopic=161 to see if I could make it work with the tips given there, but to no avail. I've tried using the bcdedit tool, and used 'fixboot' & 'fixmbr' on the XP partition, still I get the same error. His case sounds very much like mine though, with one difference: he's got his XP install on C:, as where I have it on D: or G:, depending from which OS you judge.
Could anyone shine a light on this case, as mentioned earlier, I am fairly new in this world, and only take tiny wobbly steps
A quick overview of my setup:
I have always had one IDE disk in this pc, with 2 partitions. Currently I have windows Vista installed on the C:\ partition of that, and D:\ is still my data drive.
Now, I wanted to add good old XP (since some programs dont run well on Vista) and have added a small IDE disk to provide a space for that. Installed XP on it, and the following occurs:
XP only boots, and drives are arranged like: c: Vista, d: XP, eata
Repaired Vista booting with the Vista DVD:
Vista only boots, and drives arranged like: c: Vista, d: Data e&f:CD drives g:XP
Used EasyBCD 1.5, added an XP record for G:\, now this will give the following message:
"Windows failed to start" etc etc...
File: \ntldr
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.
Tried adding an XP record for D:\, same story!
I've read your topic here: http://neosmart.net/forums/index.php?gettopic=161 to see if I could make it work with the tips given there, but to no avail. I've tried using the bcdedit tool, and used 'fixboot' & 'fixmbr' on the XP partition, still I get the same error. His case sounds very much like mine though, with one difference: he's got his XP install on C:, as where I have it on D: or G:, depending from which OS you judge.
Could anyone shine a light on this case, as mentioned earlier, I am fairly new in this world, and only take tiny wobbly steps