boot files

I was running a dual boot setup with two XP installations, and I upgraded one to Win 7. Stupidly I forgot to back up the boot info for the XP install and 7 wiped it. I'm trying to fix this and having a hard time with it. So far I have downloaded the 3 files (boot.ini, NTDETECT, and ntldr) and...

Hi, I am trying to install Windows 7 RTM from MSDN subscription on my new PC, it is Intel Q6600 2 GB RAM 200 GB SATA HD (2x100GB partitions) Windows XP has been running like a champ on the partition 0 for a long time, but when I try and install Windows 7 on patrition 1 (dualboot from same...

Hi All I am trying to get windows 7 to boot after installing it along side XP and Vista. The OS's are all on seperate HDDs, all SATA and Win 7 having the luxury of being on SSD. I have had the system on dual boot for about 2 years now and liking the flexibility, so I don't want to...

Hi, ok heres the problem I had a dual booting system with W7 RC 64bit and XP Pro 32bit on 2 separate HDs. When my copy of W7 Pro turned up I removed the HD that had the W7 RC install on and replaced it with a new 250gb HD. I installed the 64bit version of W7 Pro, when I restarted it went...

Hey guys, I'm a novice with partitioning and formating etc, anyway I originally had Xp as my only OS, now I have windows 7 and Xp on dual boot. I want to format Xp off my disk, and I understand that the boot files located in the active boot (xp) will be lost, and I understand thats not good. So...

I have never had one of these "reserved partitions, because I have always formatted first. For those of you who haven't here's how to take care of it. On a fresh (custom) installation of Windows 7, where Windows 7 is installed onto a new hard disk with unallocated disk space (no partition or...

Hi i downloaded windows 7 rc1 and it is Bootable but i want add a folder to that so i need to rebuilt .iso file i want know how i can create this .iso Bootable I think windows 7 Bootable files are : BootCatalog.cat BootImage.img Microsoft Corporation.img i extract this files from the original...

I had two operating systems on my drive in separate partitions, and I tried to install third one, win98. Installation wasn't successful and I formated partition with unfinished win98 installation. However, it somehow screwed up my boot files, and though it was gone, I still was getting win98...