Hello folks,
I have 2 drives in my computer with different partitions on each, I have 3 installs of windows 7 plus xp all in different partitions on the one drive. (will probably add windows 10 sooner or later as well)
Xp used to boot (was the active drive) but then I changed one of the windows 7 partitions to be active (since I don't use xp much) and I am now taken to the windows xp repair screen when trying to boot into it xp. All windows 7 installations boot normally.
The usual 1, 2 and 3 options about inserting XP disk with the following files corrupt or missing.
file\NST\autoneogrub.MBR and oxc000000f.
1 I see that in EasyBCD BCD Deployment, there is an option to install the windows xp bootloader to the MBR, should I do this to solve the xp not booting problem and it wont conflict with any of other window 7 installations booting?
2 Am I correct in thinking that since I have set one of the window 7 to be active (and the drive gets priority in the bios) that in effect the MBR is now on my windows 7 active drive?
3 I have used easyBCD to copy the boot records (MBR) to other drives even a few external drives as a backup measure just in case the MBR gets damaged so I could give the other drives priority in the bios and windows would start. Is this a workable wise precaution since I understand it EasyBCD never deletes anything when asked to do the above, it just copies things over?
Many thanks again, its a brilliant program.
Joe
I have 2 drives in my computer with different partitions on each, I have 3 installs of windows 7 plus xp all in different partitions on the one drive. (will probably add windows 10 sooner or later as well)
Xp used to boot (was the active drive) but then I changed one of the windows 7 partitions to be active (since I don't use xp much) and I am now taken to the windows xp repair screen when trying to boot into it xp. All windows 7 installations boot normally.
The usual 1, 2 and 3 options about inserting XP disk with the following files corrupt or missing.
file\NST\autoneogrub.MBR and oxc000000f.
1 I see that in EasyBCD BCD Deployment, there is an option to install the windows xp bootloader to the MBR, should I do this to solve the xp not booting problem and it wont conflict with any of other window 7 installations booting?
2 Am I correct in thinking that since I have set one of the window 7 to be active (and the drive gets priority in the bios) that in effect the MBR is now on my windows 7 active drive?
3 I have used easyBCD to copy the boot records (MBR) to other drives even a few external drives as a backup measure just in case the MBR gets damaged so I could give the other drives priority in the bios and windows would start. Is this a workable wise precaution since I understand it EasyBCD never deletes anything when asked to do the above, it just copies things over?
Many thanks again, its a brilliant program.
Joe
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