RapidllBoot
Member
Sorry for the post. I know this has been asked a billion times but I have tried everything to the best of my ability on this forum.
I installed Windows 7 on a seperate HDD yesterday (EDIT - I should add that XP was already installed on another HDD). I had the usual multiboot problems so I dl EasyBCD and run it - multiboot worked perfectly. I could easily switch back and forth between 7 and XP.
Last night before bed XP failed to boot. The only thing I did prior to that was installed DX11 and my video card drivers for the Win7 HDD, rebooted into Win7 and everything was fine until I tried to boot into XP.
I got the "windows failed to boot press ctrl, alt, del to reboot". I checked for the 3 files (boot.ini, ntdetect.com and ntldr) in the root of both the XP HDD and Win7 HDD. I found them on the XP drive in the follwoing folders:
ntldr = D:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
ntdetect.com = D:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
boot.ini = D:\WINDOWS\pss
I copied them and placed them in the Win7 root and made sure that EasyBCD was pointing the XP boot to that drive and it was. When I booted I got "invalid boot.ini" and "ntdetect failed".
My questions:
1) Can someone show me what a proper boot.ini looks like. This is what mine looks like:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(0)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
2) Would an XP repair correct this?
Thanks everyone
RB
I installed Windows 7 on a seperate HDD yesterday (EDIT - I should add that XP was already installed on another HDD). I had the usual multiboot problems so I dl EasyBCD and run it - multiboot worked perfectly. I could easily switch back and forth between 7 and XP.
Last night before bed XP failed to boot. The only thing I did prior to that was installed DX11 and my video card drivers for the Win7 HDD, rebooted into Win7 and everything was fine until I tried to boot into XP.
I got the "windows failed to boot press ctrl, alt, del to reboot". I checked for the 3 files (boot.ini, ntdetect.com and ntldr) in the root of both the XP HDD and Win7 HDD. I found them on the XP drive in the follwoing folders:
ntldr = D:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
ntdetect.com = D:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
boot.ini = D:\WINDOWS\pss
I copied them and placed them in the Win7 root and made sure that EasyBCD was pointing the XP boot to that drive and it was. When I booted I got "invalid boot.ini" and "ntdetect failed".
My questions:
1) Can someone show me what a proper boot.ini looks like. This is what mine looks like:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(0)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
2) Would an XP repair correct this?
Thanks everyone
RB
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