I tried to Dual Boot using XP first and then installing Win 7 onto a different disk. Win 7 got confused and installed over XP !!! It was polite and stored XP into a folder. I copied the contents of the folder onto a clean partition on the other HD. After lots of reading and trying and copying EasyBCD2 onto my system I think I have the Dual Boot set up correctly. However when I try to boot into XP I get a rather long message:
"Windows couldn't start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem."
"Could not read from the selected boot disk."
"Check boot path and disk hardware configuration."
Does "boot disk" refer to the partition with XP (P:\) or the active drive (C:\) ??
The "boot.ini" correctly refers to the XP on the P: partition and the XP boot entry refers to C:
Any ideas about how to fix this situation would be greatly appreciated as I have a lot of things installed in XP and don't have the time to reinstall while trying to learn Win 7.
Thanks
HJ
"Windows couldn't start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem."
"Could not read from the selected boot disk."
"Check boot path and disk hardware configuration."
Does "boot disk" refer to the partition with XP (P:\) or the active drive (C:\) ??
The "boot.ini" correctly refers to the XP on the P: partition and the XP boot entry refers to C:
Any ideas about how to fix this situation would be greatly appreciated as I have a lot of things installed in XP and don't have the time to reinstall while trying to learn Win 7.
Thanks
HJ