Need some help with the boot loader

All will be revealed when we see the hard drives and bcdedit in the screenshots.

Lordbob75 said:

Hey Mudfrog. Go into Seven, and open EasyBCD.
Go to Add/Remove Entries.
Is XP listed, or just Seven?

If just seven is listed, then do this:
1) Find the drive letter of your XP installation
2) Open EasyBCD and go to Add/Remove Entries
3) Add your XP install at the bottom by typing the name of the install (whatever you want) and then pointing it to your drive.
4) Try rebooting, and see if it is listed. If not, you can install iReboot, and use that to boot into XP.
(see attached Screen shot)
Hope that works for you!

~Lordbob

Thanks for the reply!

This is exactly what I had done, I even went as far as deleting the XP entry and adding it again. Immediately after saving when I reboot it goes straight to XP, even with Win7 listed in BCDEDIT.

Now I will say this.. I dunno why but since day one XP and Win7 has seen my XP install as a different drive letter. In XP it's drive F:, in Win7 it's drive D:. I have tried using both drive letters and neither worked. Keep in mind it was like that from day one and it "used" to work.

Ok, here is my screen pic.. this is after I tried EasyBCD again.



If that doesn't work, isn't working for me for some reason..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...PC/bcdedit.jpg

Lordbob75 said:

Mudfrog, did you try using iReboot to boot into XP?

~Lordbob

No I have not.. I have not even heard of it. I will look it up.

Hi,

I am not sure if this will help, but try re-building the boot manager.

Scroll to the bottom post, and that should help you out.


Boot manager is missing, will not boot without the windows 7 install disk in the drive

tip me scales if this did help

regards
Luckystar

Reproduced your pics here :





Where is Disk 0 in that shot ? The system partition is on that.

Which HD do you have set first in the HD boot order in BIOS?

SIW2 said:

Reproduced your pics here :





Where is Disk 0 in that shot ? The system partition is on that.

Which HD do you have set first in the HD boot order in BIOS?

I'll have to double check but it should be my WD 750g which has 3 paritions (XP install, 7 install and Games drive).