My computer won't boot into XP or 7 anymore after adding/remvoing extra hard drive
I have 1 hard drive
3 partitions:
1 XP (C)
2 7 (E)
3 Documents (X)
I plugged in an extra ide hard drive to see what was in it, after unplugging it, all of my drive letters became messed up so the windows 7 bootloader wouldnt boot into either OS.
I booted into a separate hard drive that had 7 on it and kept my main hard drive plugged in.
All the partitions were still accessible from my computer and all my data was still there.
I went into disk management and changed the letters back to what they were before (XP C, 7 E, Documents X) I could tell which was which by opening them in through my computer.
So I got rid of all the extra hard drives and set everything up as it were before, hardware wise.
The bootloader still won't open either os.
XP says something to do with ndtlr or whatever and windows 7 tells me to try inserting windows 7 cd and repair.
Is there anything else I can try before I go get my W7 cd from my parents place to run the repair option? (will that even help?)
Can I edit the bootloader of a different hard drive using easybcd?, I've got it running on a different hard drive but I can't get into the bootloader for my main hard drive.
luckily I kept my documents and other important stuff in a separate hard drive so I could reformat but that would mean losing programs...
Any help is appreciated, thanks
I have 1 hard drive
3 partitions:
1 XP (C)
2 7 (E)
3 Documents (X)
I plugged in an extra ide hard drive to see what was in it, after unplugging it, all of my drive letters became messed up so the windows 7 bootloader wouldnt boot into either OS.
I booted into a separate hard drive that had 7 on it and kept my main hard drive plugged in.
All the partitions were still accessible from my computer and all my data was still there.
I went into disk management and changed the letters back to what they were before (XP C, 7 E, Documents X) I could tell which was which by opening them in through my computer.
So I got rid of all the extra hard drives and set everything up as it were before, hardware wise.
The bootloader still won't open either os.
XP says something to do with ndtlr or whatever and windows 7 tells me to try inserting windows 7 cd and repair.
Is there anything else I can try before I go get my W7 cd from my parents place to run the repair option? (will that even help?)
Can I edit the bootloader of a different hard drive using easybcd?, I've got it running on a different hard drive but I can't get into the bootloader for my main hard drive.
luckily I kept my documents and other important stuff in a separate hard drive so I could reformat but that would mean losing programs...
Any help is appreciated, thanks