Windows 7 & XP Dual boot nightmare.

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maherpaul

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Hi, i have tried to perform a dual boot also. I installed XP on my Windows 7 laptop but cannot get back to 7. tried everything, easyBCD wont work properly, no choice of OS on startup, Windows 7 recovery boot cd downloaded and wont run... any ideas?
Thanks.

Addendum:

I have even downloaded EasyBCD 2.0 beta to let it select the XP drive automatically, iv had to boot from XP CD 5 times so far and still no joy.
 
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Hi all,
I have installed XP on a partition of my main HDD, the original OS was Windows 7 but i needed XP for most of my software. I have installed Easy BCD and tried many times to configure the boot menu. I think i have overwritten the Windows 7 boot files because i have no choice to boot into this OS it just goes straight to XP. I have tried EasyBCD 2.0 beta and no joy. when i try and add OS entrys in EasyBCD it asks me if it can configure some files etc and i click yes. then EasyBCD stops responding. I have downloaded the Windows 7 recovery CD and i cant even boot from that... any ideas?
 
Please try EasyBCD | Useful Utilities | Power Console

Type in "bcdedit.exe /enum" and copy & paste the results here.
 
hello,
i try to install both windows xp &7
but after instaling easy bcd and config it in windows xp loading the blue screen apear the system restart.
whats your opinion?
 
Installing XP after Vista/W7 will regress the boot (see sticky point 4).
Have you used EasyBCD manage bootloader / reinstall Vista/W7 bootloader ?
 
at boot it goes straight to XP. i have tried to configure it a few different ways and can even get the boot choice menu to work but only with one choice, XP.

Addendum:

i have reinstalled the vista/7 bootloader but when i then proceed to add a windows 7 entry it gives me an error. Error details:
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index and count must refer to a location within the string.
Parameter name: count
at System.String.Remove(Int32 startIndex, Int32 count)
at ..(String , String )
at ..(Object , EventArgs )
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
EasyBCD
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.76
Win32 Version: 2.0.0.76
CodeBase: file:///D:/Program%20Files/NeoSmart%20Technologies/EasyBCD/EasyBCD.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
Microsoft.VisualBasic
Assembly Version: 8.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 8.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.VisualBasic/8.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Runtime.Remoting
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Runtime.Remoting/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Runtime.Remoting.dll
----------------------------------------
{70fc5d9e-3dc9-4d07-a468-323323133628}
Assembly Version: 0.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.0.76
CodeBase: file:///D:/Program%20Files/NeoSmart%20Technologies/EasyBCD/EasyBCD.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Configuration
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///D:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
NeoSmart.UpdateChecker
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.0.76
CodeBase: file:///D:/Program%20Files/NeoSmart%20Technologies/EasyBCD/EasyBCD.exe
----------------------------------------
Interop.Microsoft.Feeds.Interop
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.0.76
CodeBase: file:///D:/Program%20Files/NeoSmart%20Technologies/EasyBCD/EasyBCD.exe
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.
 
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Actually, EasyBCD | Diagnostics | Reset BCD


The screenshot you took shows that your {bootmgr} record is missing the "device" entry and therefore will not work correctly. That should fix it.
 
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