Hi,
I've got a problem. I shall give a quick rundown on what I have done. Here goes:
I have Win Xp installed on my IDE HD. I have had it there for years. This HD is set to master as it shares the IDE cable with another IDE HD which is set to slave. The HD that has XP on it was set as the first boot hard disc in BIOS.
I bought a new SATA-II HD, partitioned it in win xp to a few separate partitions, one of them being N: and I named it "SEVEN" as in to be the partition I would use to install win7 to.
I put in the windows 7 dvd and began the installation. I chose the partition (SEVEN) N: in the setup and installed on it. Everything went smoothly.
Then windows 7 booted for the first time at the end of the installation and I checked how the new start menu looked. Then I chose restart to see if the dualboot screen would appear.
When the computer restarted, it booted straight to win xp. Ok, wasn't expecting that. After XP had booted, I chose restart and went into bios and realized the IDE HD which had XP on it, was still the number one in boot order.
Well I chose the new SATA-II HD that I just installed win 7 on as the first boot hard drive and rebooted my system. When boot came, I got an error message saying :"Hard Disk Boot Failure Insert System Disk Press Enter". Great.
Well after thinking for a moment I thought I had realized the problem. I booted off the win 7 dvd and chose repair. It said if found win 7 installation at F:\windows. When the XP HD had booted it probably had changed the win 7 partition letter to F: since the system found XP on C:.
Well as I thought this was the case, I simply booted in XP then and formatted the N: partition deleting win 7 entirely. This time though after the formatting was finished, I shut the system down and removed the IDE HD which had XP on it.
I started the system up and went straight to BIOS and chose the new SATA-II HD as the number one booting hard drive, then chose the boot device to be DVD again and proceeded to install win 7 again on the (SEVEN) N: partition. This time of course win 7 setup didn't find any other windows installations.
After win 7 had installed itself and booted for the first time, I chose shutdown in win 7. Then I plugged in the IDE HD which had XP on it. Started up the system and went straight to BIOS to make sure the new SATA-II HD having win 7 on it was still the number one booting HD. It was and I proceeded to boot the system. And what did I get, "Hard Disk Boot Failure Insert System Disk Press Enter".
The drive letter had changed again for some bloody reason and basically this is where I am. Why does the drive letter change even though win xp is installed first and then win 7 should take over when installing it second
So I install win 7 just fine. It boots just fine for the first time, but when I restart it, it gives the boot disc failure message.
I have also tried to remove every other disc from the system and keep only the new SATA-II HD connected but it still gives the error at boot. Now what I haven't tried yet is remove every drive and connect only the new sata drive and install win 7 on it and test if it boots fine, but I think the problem indeed lies in this IDE HD of mine on which the xp is installed and the way the system puts it above everything else.. or something, I really don't know.
I don't know whether I should do something with the EasyBCD or something...?
I've got a problem. I shall give a quick rundown on what I have done. Here goes:
I have Win Xp installed on my IDE HD. I have had it there for years. This HD is set to master as it shares the IDE cable with another IDE HD which is set to slave. The HD that has XP on it was set as the first boot hard disc in BIOS.
I bought a new SATA-II HD, partitioned it in win xp to a few separate partitions, one of them being N: and I named it "SEVEN" as in to be the partition I would use to install win7 to.
I put in the windows 7 dvd and began the installation. I chose the partition (SEVEN) N: in the setup and installed on it. Everything went smoothly.
Then windows 7 booted for the first time at the end of the installation and I checked how the new start menu looked. Then I chose restart to see if the dualboot screen would appear.
When the computer restarted, it booted straight to win xp. Ok, wasn't expecting that. After XP had booted, I chose restart and went into bios and realized the IDE HD which had XP on it, was still the number one in boot order.
Well I chose the new SATA-II HD that I just installed win 7 on as the first boot hard drive and rebooted my system. When boot came, I got an error message saying :"Hard Disk Boot Failure Insert System Disk Press Enter". Great.
Well after thinking for a moment I thought I had realized the problem. I booted off the win 7 dvd and chose repair. It said if found win 7 installation at F:\windows. When the XP HD had booted it probably had changed the win 7 partition letter to F: since the system found XP on C:.
Well as I thought this was the case, I simply booted in XP then and formatted the N: partition deleting win 7 entirely. This time though after the formatting was finished, I shut the system down and removed the IDE HD which had XP on it.
I started the system up and went straight to BIOS and chose the new SATA-II HD as the number one booting hard drive, then chose the boot device to be DVD again and proceeded to install win 7 again on the (SEVEN) N: partition. This time of course win 7 setup didn't find any other windows installations.
After win 7 had installed itself and booted for the first time, I chose shutdown in win 7. Then I plugged in the IDE HD which had XP on it. Started up the system and went straight to BIOS to make sure the new SATA-II HD having win 7 on it was still the number one booting HD. It was and I proceeded to boot the system. And what did I get, "Hard Disk Boot Failure Insert System Disk Press Enter".
The drive letter had changed again for some bloody reason and basically this is where I am. Why does the drive letter change even though win xp is installed first and then win 7 should take over when installing it second
So I install win 7 just fine. It boots just fine for the first time, but when I restart it, it gives the boot disc failure message.
I have also tried to remove every other disc from the system and keep only the new SATA-II HD connected but it still gives the error at boot. Now what I haven't tried yet is remove every drive and connect only the new sata drive and install win 7 on it and test if it boots fine, but I think the problem indeed lies in this IDE HD of mine on which the xp is installed and the way the system puts it above everything else.. or something, I really don't know.
I don't know whether I should do something with the EasyBCD or something...?
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