dirkdigles
Member
Hi all,
Wish I was making my first post under better circumstances! I have run into what seems to be a severe problem, and am having a hard time fixing.
Background: I had a fully functioning Win7 32bit and XP 32bit dual boot going on my machine. I got a new motherboard from a friend and some more ram, and I decided I wanted to install it and, in turn, reinstall Windows 7 64-bit, but wanted to keep my XP installation intact, as it has some pretty ancient software on it. I have my machine set up as such: 80GB IDE drive with 2 partitions, Windows 7 on one partition and XP on the other. Then I have 2 SATA drives which I use for larger program installations, media, videos, etc.
Anyway, I install the new motherboard and such, and then installed Win7-64 without a hitch. Everything is up and running, but my dual boot menu was erased, and the computer was now booting directly to Windows 7. So, I installed EasyBCD 2.0 beta, newest build, and added my XP installation to the boot menu, which went without a hitch (I had done this a couple years back when I used Vista & XP).
Next, I restart and boot into XP, which of course goes into panic mode because there's a new motherboard. I put in the windows XP dvd to do a repair installation, and everything goes ok, however it overwrites the prior dual boot menu. After booting into XP, I'm noticing it is having a really hard time identifying my SATA drives with the new motherboard and all.
I tried a few methods to get the bootloader back (I couldn't connect to the internet in XP due to driver issues), and then things just went haywire. I can't recall exactly how I got to the place I am now, but I was using the Windows 7 DVD to "repair" the installation, as I read on several forums that was the way to go. It hasn't repaired anything -and now when I boot, I just get "BOOTMGR is missing, press CTRL+ALT+DEL" . Can't boot into anything now, just get that message every time.
I've tried booting the Win7 dvd multiple times and using the repair/recover install (like this http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD )
but it's not working, and now I really don't know what to do, short of reinstalling everything (which I really don't want to do!!). I feel like there has to be a way to fix this, as there is a perfectly functioning Win7 installation on the hard drive that I just can't boot into. Assuming I get the bootloader fixed somehow, I will wipe and reinstall XP, then use EasyBCD to set up dual boot.
Anyway, sorry for the long post. Does anyone have any sort of suggestions for me? Anything is absolutely appreciated.
Best,
-Dirk
Addendum:
This might help diagnosis; this is from the system recovery command prompt via the Win 7 dvd.
Went to c:\windows\system32, and typed "bcedit /enum all"
Windows Boot Manager
----------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=E:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-us
inherit {globalsettings}
default {default}
identifier {blah blah blah}
displayorder {default}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
--------------------
identifier {numbers and letters}
device partition=F:
path \Windows\System32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=F:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {numbers and letters}
nx OptIn
*****************
I really think the problem lies in here somewhere!! There's another "Windows Boot Loader" entry that lists the partitions as C: - which I find strange. Another one "Resume from Hibernate" lists partition F, then another one lists C.
??
Wish I was making my first post under better circumstances! I have run into what seems to be a severe problem, and am having a hard time fixing.
Background: I had a fully functioning Win7 32bit and XP 32bit dual boot going on my machine. I got a new motherboard from a friend and some more ram, and I decided I wanted to install it and, in turn, reinstall Windows 7 64-bit, but wanted to keep my XP installation intact, as it has some pretty ancient software on it. I have my machine set up as such: 80GB IDE drive with 2 partitions, Windows 7 on one partition and XP on the other. Then I have 2 SATA drives which I use for larger program installations, media, videos, etc.
Anyway, I install the new motherboard and such, and then installed Win7-64 without a hitch. Everything is up and running, but my dual boot menu was erased, and the computer was now booting directly to Windows 7. So, I installed EasyBCD 2.0 beta, newest build, and added my XP installation to the boot menu, which went without a hitch (I had done this a couple years back when I used Vista & XP).
Next, I restart and boot into XP, which of course goes into panic mode because there's a new motherboard. I put in the windows XP dvd to do a repair installation, and everything goes ok, however it overwrites the prior dual boot menu. After booting into XP, I'm noticing it is having a really hard time identifying my SATA drives with the new motherboard and all.
I tried a few methods to get the bootloader back (I couldn't connect to the internet in XP due to driver issues), and then things just went haywire. I can't recall exactly how I got to the place I am now, but I was using the Windows 7 DVD to "repair" the installation, as I read on several forums that was the way to go. It hasn't repaired anything -and now when I boot, I just get "BOOTMGR is missing, press CTRL+ALT+DEL" . Can't boot into anything now, just get that message every time.
I've tried booting the Win7 dvd multiple times and using the repair/recover install (like this http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD )
but it's not working, and now I really don't know what to do, short of reinstalling everything (which I really don't want to do!!). I feel like there has to be a way to fix this, as there is a perfectly functioning Win7 installation on the hard drive that I just can't boot into. Assuming I get the bootloader fixed somehow, I will wipe and reinstall XP, then use EasyBCD to set up dual boot.
Anyway, sorry for the long post. Does anyone have any sort of suggestions for me? Anything is absolutely appreciated.
Best,
-Dirk
Addendum:
This might help diagnosis; this is from the system recovery command prompt via the Win 7 dvd.
Went to c:\windows\system32, and typed "bcedit /enum all"
Windows Boot Manager
----------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=E:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-us
inherit {globalsettings}
default {default}
identifier {blah blah blah}
displayorder {default}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
--------------------
identifier {numbers and letters}
device partition=F:
path \Windows\System32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=F:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {numbers and letters}
nx OptIn
*****************
I really think the problem lies in here somewhere!! There's another "Windows Boot Loader" entry that lists the partitions as C: - which I find strange. Another one "Resume from Hibernate" lists partition F, then another one lists C.
??
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