I've just recovered my Windows XP Partition using the 7.2.137 Beta. My drive configuration is Windows 7 x64 on a Raid drive (2 SATA) which is the primary active drive where bootmgr is. My Windows XP partition is on a second SATA drive (no raid) and then one small data drive also SATA.
What I am seeing is that the XP partition becomes unbootable if I do not gracefully shutdown the OS. I have had to basically turn off the machine a couple of times due to a problem with the data drive causing the OS to become completely unresponsive.
I get the following message on boot:
I can boot into Windows 7 with no problems. If I run chkdsk on XP Drive it does not detect any problems however I cannot boot into the XP drive unless I remove the entry in EasyBCD and then recreate it and then XP will be happy and boot until I shutdown again ungracefully. Also if I do the same thing boot into 7 run chkdsk on xp drive but not make changes in bcd then reboot xp will still fail.
I'm removing the data drive which I think may be corrupt for now since its backed up and I've not used it for a while but I'm concerned about the stability of the bootmgr in this case. Is this just a windows quirk or is there something EasyBCD is doing here to fix the problem?
What I am seeing is that the XP partition becomes unbootable if I do not gracefully shutdown the OS. I have had to basically turn off the machine a couple of times due to a problem with the data drive causing the OS to become completely unresponsive.
I get the following message on boot:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
I can boot into Windows 7 with no problems. If I run chkdsk on XP Drive it does not detect any problems however I cannot boot into the XP drive unless I remove the entry in EasyBCD and then recreate it and then XP will be happy and boot until I shutdown again ungracefully. Also if I do the same thing boot into 7 run chkdsk on xp drive but not make changes in bcd then reboot xp will still fail.
I'm removing the data drive which I think may be corrupt for now since its backed up and I've not used it for a while but I'm concerned about the stability of the bootmgr in this case. Is this just a windows quirk or is there something EasyBCD is doing here to fix the problem?