I have tried and failed for the past four hours or so to get Windows 7 and XP dual booting with each other. I originaly had Windows 7 installed on one hard drive and then installed XP on a seperate hard drive. Because I installed XP after 7 I had to run the Windows 7 recovary to gain access back to the Win 7 bootloader and Win 7.
However the problem arose when trying to add Win XP to the Win 7 bootloader (which is the same bootloader as Vista I believe). Vistabootpro has failed me and cannot detect the XP installation, and manually adding XP comes up with the same error as adding XP to the bootloader in the command prompt using "bcdedit". The error being that:
XP shows up in the bootloader but upon selecting it, it says that I am missing ntldr!
Now ntldr, ntdetect and boot.ini are present at the root of the XP drive, and I have coppied them to the Win 7 drive too.
This is the vistabootpro overview:
There is currently 3 OS(s) installed on your system.
The current boot timeout is: 30
Default OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
Entry 1
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Name: Windows 7 Ultimate
BCD ID: {current}
Boot Drive: C:
Windows Drive: C:
System Bootloader: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows
Entry 2
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Name: Windows Recovery Environment
BCD ID: {3a0eb0a1-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa}
Boot Drive: :]\Recovery\8226a662-df7d-11dd-baf5-91a0d58c54fa\Winre.wim,{3a0eb0a2-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa}
Windows Drive: :]\Recovery\8226a662-df7d-11dd-baf5-91a0d58c54fa\Winre.wim,{3a0eb0a2-06da-11de-9e0f-e41057b9e8fa}
System Bootloader: \windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \windows
Entry 3
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Name: Windows XP
BCD ID: {ntldr}
Boot Drive: E:
System Bootloader: ntldr
Windows 7 200mb recov = Disk 1 partition 1 = D drive
Windows 7 = Disk 1 partition 2 = C Drive
Windows XP = Disk 2 = E Drive
All three of the above appear in the bootloader. Win 7 loads fine as does the recovary enviroment however Win XP says it is missing ntldr even though it is present mad.gif
if anyone can help me it would be very much appreciated.
