As i said in the title i apologize for yet another dual boot Xp W7 post, iv searched and solved my problem partially but now another issue has arisen and im unsure on how to continue. Il start from the beginning.
My PC just had XP 64 Prof on a sata HD but i bought a new sata HD to install W7 64 Ultimate. I kinda ran headlong into the installation and disconected the XP HD while i installed W7 on my new HD. I know this is the reason i couldnt dual boot. Anyway i dl EasyBCD, installed it on W7 and ran it, now at start up it sees both OS and will load W7, but when i click to load XP it says theres a corruption issue with XP and an error with the ntldr file and wont load. My boot.ini files are as follows
XP:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional x64 Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer
W7:
; This boot.ini was automatically generated by NeoSmart Technologies' BootGrabber.exe
; Use EasyBCD from
Download EasyBCD 2.0.2 - NeoSmart Technologies to manage your bootloader
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP on F:\" /fastdetect
If that helps.
Other posts have said to copy some files over to W7, but im unsure of it all. I know not to do a repair to XP over W7, but dunno what to do next.
I have no idea if that info is of any use, this is the first dual boot install iv done and im not that conversant on stacks of terminology so if it helps please treat me like im a bit thick when replying
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Thanks