Blueguitar
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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 completly wreck the current setup.
Win 7 installed fine and first boot was OK and I had a little play around. On restart it was missing from the Boot manager. So I added it via DualBootPro 1.0. It appeared in the list and I made sure Vista was still OK, it was. Win 7 however came up with the missing or corrupt error relating to the winload.exe and sent me back to the OS choices.
After reading similar posts on the web I can see it as being a mix up with the boot files/paths. The BCD seems logically fine to look at but there is something underlying with it I can't put my finger on.
I have used DualBootPro in the Vista install and done the obvious to add Win 7 >> Add New OS entry >> Select Win 7 >> Select Drive I: (as it appears in Vista) >> Apply Updates. Reboot
One thing the SSD must be using a "System Reserved" drive it has created, I presume this is normal for SSD buffering and alike. The drive is drive G:
Also all my boot related files for the OS's seem to be on the XP drive.
Thanks
Blueguitar
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 completly wreck the current setup.
Win 7 installed fine and first boot was OK and I had a little play around. On restart it was missing from the Boot manager. So I added it via DualBootPro 1.0. It appeared in the list and I made sure Vista was still OK, it was. Win 7 however came up with the missing or corrupt error relating to the winload.exe and sent me back to the OS choices.
After reading similar posts on the web I can see it as being a mix up with the boot files/paths. The BCD seems logically fine to look at but there is something underlying with it I can't put my finger on.
I have used DualBootPro in the Vista install and done the obvious to add Win 7 >> Add New OS entry >> Select Win 7 >> Select Drive I: (as it appears in Vista) >> Apply Updates. Reboot
One thing the SSD must be using a "System Reserved" drive it has created, I presume this is normal for SSD buffering and alike. The drive is drive G:
Also all my boot related files for the OS's seem to be on the XP drive.
Thanks
Blueguitar