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Hi, I have severe trouble to get my Windows 7 run as dual boot together with Windows XP. The situation is a little bit complicated: 1. I had my Windows XP installed on harddisk A as primary partition. I saved this installation with Paragon Drive Backup. In error I restored this Windwos XP-Installation on my data HDD B on a primary partition. Then I bought a new harddisk C and installed Windows 7. First, the Windows 7 boot manager worked and presented Windows 7and a second entry that lead me to that XP installation which I restored with Paragon Drive Backup on HDD B. Unfortunately this XP installation asked me to activate again Windows XP, which I did not want to run without Anti-Virus software via Internet. Since the boot management did not give me the opportunaty to run my original Windows XP version, I decided to inactive HDD B with the restored XP-Version. Now the trouble started. When I reboote, the message "NTDLR is missing" I tried out any action possible to get rid of this error but did not succeed: This is what I sofar tried: 1. Startup repair with W7 disc 2. CMD: bootrec /fixmbr and fixboot, rebuildBcd 3. Bootsec/nt60 4. Several Boot Repair options using Paragon Partition Manager 9.5 5. I reinstalled W7 and the bootmanagment was ok. I exported the BCD file. Then I restored my final W7 installation and imported again the BCD-file of the original basically working W7 installation but again "NTDLR was missing"... ...and notihng worked at all! The strange thing is: When I insert my W7 installation CD, the Boot Manager of Windows 7 is displayed and I can start Windwos 7 and also XP. When I put out the W7 CD, "NTDLR is missing" again... I am really fed up with this trouble and do not understand what is happening.... Thanks for any support help about this problem...
