Recent content by nothvice

Thanks for all the tips. Sorry for the late reply. I tried changing the boot drive to E:\ and now when I select XP at boot, it doesn't give an error, but instead just goes black and doesn't do anything from there.

I have attached the most recent screenshots of the XP root, the Win 7 root, disk management and EasyBCD. The Win 7 drive is the first drive that shows up in the BIOS.

I reformatted the Win7 drive and reinstalled 7 with just one partition now. I installed EasyBCD 2.0 and let it copy the necessary files to the XP drive (I can now see the XP drive in 7). Now at the boot menu when I select XP, it reports that an unexpected error occurred and then it gives an...

A brief history of the XP install (the Win7 install is brand new): I had another drive in the computer at one time that had Vista on it. I successfully had the Vista boot menu selecting either XP or Vista. I removed the Vista drive later on and modified the boot file from there. I have a...

I have attached four screenshots of relevant boot information from the XP install. I simply disconnected the Win7 hard drive drive and the computer booted correctly into XP. It appears that Win7 is the only one with the boot loader since the XP install does not prompt and instead boots right...

Thanks, but I already tried that. I have the boot screen already, but when I select the XP install, it does not work.

I have attached screenshots from EasyBCD and Disk Management. The problem is that my Win 7 install doesn't see my XP drive at all even though the BIOS sees it. In the Disk Management shot, ignore the extra and unallocated parts of the C drive, they are leftovers from an old Linux install that...

Before I read your post, I tried running the startup repair off the Win7 disk and successfully got it to show the boot menu on startup where it lets you select either Windows 7 or Microsoft Windows. However, when you select Microsoft Windows, it comes up with an error saying it cannot locate the...

Thanks for the tip, but I already tried EasyBCD and when I try to add XP to the list of bootable os's, EasyBCD errors out saying that it can't find the NTLDR loader and that it must be installed. The 7 machine doesn't even see the XP drive, so I'm wondering if there is a problem with the XP drive.

Hello. I installed Windows 7 on a separate hard drive. In the same computer I also have a Windows XP drive. The XP drive was present in the computer when I installed 7. However, when I start the computer, I don't get a choice between the two, it just automatically starts 7. What is the best way...

Hello. I have an HP netbook and don't want to sacrifice my current installation on the internal drive to Windows 7 quite yet. So I have a 320gb external USB hard drive that I would like to boot Windows 7 off of. Unfortunately, the installation tells me Windows cannot install to USB hard drives...