Hi,
I'm in need of some help and figured this was the place to ask. I had a nice triple boot setup with Vista, XP Pro and Ubuntu Linux, all OS's x86. My fatal mistake was using Vista's ***** disk cleanup feature. I don't know what made me think it had improved over XP's version, needless to say it deleted just about everything that was critical to things running smoothly. It deleted almost all of my installed programs, custom settings, XP Program files, etc. I tried system restore (which took about and hour to complete) but no luck because it wouldn't boot after that and trying to repair it was futile, as I got a ton of errors. I have two Acronis disk images (50 Gb each), one of Vista and one of XP, that I made for exactly this reason. I figured that it would be easier to just scrap the Linux install and try to restore the two Windows images that I use the most since I really didn't want to mess with the GRUB boot loader on top of it all . Both OS's are going on the same disk but with two separate 50Gb partitions. I was able to restore the Vista image with no problem as it booted right up. Using EasyBCD I created an entry for XP and pointed it to the partition, saved the settings and rebooted. The boot screen shows the two entries, however when selecting the XP installation I get the NTLDR error. I read through the Wiki you guys have and downloaded the two NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM files, then placed them in the XP root folder. I also tried to use the XP recovery console bootcfg /rebuild command but to no avail. When I tried to reinstall the XP boot loader using EasyBCD it copied over the GRUB loader and I also deleted the Linux partition so I don't think that's a reason for my troubles. I have also looked through the forums here as well as the Acronis site and only see similar problems scattered through out the posts but nothing pertaining to the exact situation I'm in. I'm really lost as far as what to do next. I can't remember having this much trouble with a dual boot before. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
I'm in need of some help and figured this was the place to ask. I had a nice triple boot setup with Vista, XP Pro and Ubuntu Linux, all OS's x86. My fatal mistake was using Vista's ***** disk cleanup feature. I don't know what made me think it had improved over XP's version, needless to say it deleted just about everything that was critical to things running smoothly. It deleted almost all of my installed programs, custom settings, XP Program files, etc. I tried system restore (which took about and hour to complete) but no luck because it wouldn't boot after that and trying to repair it was futile, as I got a ton of errors. I have two Acronis disk images (50 Gb each), one of Vista and one of XP, that I made for exactly this reason. I figured that it would be easier to just scrap the Linux install and try to restore the two Windows images that I use the most since I really didn't want to mess with the GRUB boot loader on top of it all . Both OS's are going on the same disk but with two separate 50Gb partitions. I was able to restore the Vista image with no problem as it booted right up. Using EasyBCD I created an entry for XP and pointed it to the partition, saved the settings and rebooted. The boot screen shows the two entries, however when selecting the XP installation I get the NTLDR error. I read through the Wiki you guys have and downloaded the two NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM files, then placed them in the XP root folder. I also tried to use the XP recovery console bootcfg /rebuild command but to no avail. When I tried to reinstall the XP boot loader using EasyBCD it copied over the GRUB loader and I also deleted the Linux partition so I don't think that's a reason for my troubles. I have also looked through the forums here as well as the Acronis site and only see similar problems scattered through out the posts but nothing pertaining to the exact situation I'm in. I'm really lost as far as what to do next. I can't remember having this much trouble with a dual boot before. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.