I was working on a friends machine that had Vista installed from the OEM (Compaq) and decided to install XP. Followed all the guides after installing XP and ended with a perfectly working dual boot system. I then had to move the XP partition closer to the leading edge of the disk to facilitate getting two chunks of unallocated space together in one area. After moving the XP partition, it appeared to be booting but made it past the original boot screen seemingly faster than usual or before. Then as it started to load the welcome/logon (light blue) screen, the XP logo that loads right before the user logon accounts and picture loaded and just freezes. No user logon list loads.
Vista is installed in its original C:
XP is installed in X:
What I have tried:
1. Re-create/repair boot files and clicked Perform action - Didn't work
2. Removed XP Entry and re-added it with 'Auto detect
3. Advanced Settings changed XP drive to X:, saved settings and in 'BCD Deployment clicked 'Write BCD'
Then got this message:
FILE \NST\ntldr
The selected entry could not be located because the application is either missing or corrupted.
4. Removed XP entry and re-added with (can't remember if I unchecked "auto detect correct dirve' this time or not but it went back to the freezing right before the logon screen again.
I have tried reading the documentation and looking into several forum post that are similar and it just seams confusing.
Any help would be appreciated.
Vista is installed in its original C:
XP is installed in X:
What I have tried:
1. Re-create/repair boot files and clicked Perform action - Didn't work
2. Removed XP Entry and re-added it with 'Auto detect
3. Advanced Settings changed XP drive to X:, saved settings and in 'BCD Deployment clicked 'Write BCD'
Then got this message:
FILE \NST\ntldr
The selected entry could not be located because the application is either missing or corrupted.
4. Removed XP entry and re-added with (can't remember if I unchecked "auto detect correct dirve' this time or not but it went back to the freezing right before the logon screen again.
I have tried reading the documentation and looking into several forum post that are similar and it just seams confusing.
Any help would be appreciated.