I have Win7 and WinXP Pro on two separate HDDs. The bootloader that came with Win7 worked until I did a repair install of XP. That's when I got EasyBCD, and installed in on the Win7 drive. The Win7 drive is the default boot drive. A few days ago I was on XP and hit restart and walked away. Upon my return several minutes later the PC was still on the Win7 start window, long after it should have booted. I shut it off and tried to start the PC with the same result. It takes a long time for it to get to the boot menu, and longer to get to the "starting windows" screen, where it stays. I have run startup repair from disc and from Win7.
I just got to your forums and discovered that I can attempt a fix from XP with EasyBCD. It's installed, but I want some advise before I continue to prevent me from losing access to both OSs.
Running Win XP, in the "View Settings" section of EasyBCD the entries in the bootloader appear as:
Default: Windows 7
Timeout: 35 seconds
Boot Drive: D:\
Entry 1
Name: Windows 7
BCD ID: {default}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Entry #2
Name: Microsoft Windows XP
BCD ID: {c140b9fe-c1c5-11de-8181-9b0dbc2af7b5}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\ntldr
Is it correct that the entries should be shown as on the same HDD? How should I proceed from here?
I just got to your forums and discovered that I can attempt a fix from XP with EasyBCD. It's installed, but I want some advise before I continue to prevent me from losing access to both OSs.
Running Win XP, in the "View Settings" section of EasyBCD the entries in the bootloader appear as:
Default: Windows 7
Timeout: 35 seconds
Boot Drive: D:\
Entry 1
Name: Windows 7
BCD ID: {default}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Entry #2
Name: Microsoft Windows XP
BCD ID: {c140b9fe-c1c5-11de-8181-9b0dbc2af7b5}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\ntldr
Is it correct that the entries should be shown as on the same HDD? How should I proceed from here?