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| 10-03-2009 | #11 |
| | Hi all... I have downloaded EasyBCD but when I try to add entries and add WinXP it says some files (NTDETECT.com and NTLDR) are needed.... Where can I get them? How to copy them correctly? And I can't choose the "hard drive letter" when adding a new entry...  |
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| 10-03-2009 | #12 |
| | Forget Easybcd, only good for altering systems already set. It will always boot to the latest OS, the easiest way is to go into RUN "msconfig" BOOT and select your own default. |
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| 10-03-2009 | #13 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by wysiwyg  Forget Easybcd, only good for altering systems already set. It will always boot to the latest OS, the easiest way is to go into RUN "msconfig" BOOT and select your own default. Everything msconfig can do for booting, easybcd can, and then some. How would msconfig magically recreate his lost boot files? No NTLDR = no boot. simple as that. |
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| 10-03-2009 | #14 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by termikxs Hi all... I have downloaded EasyBCD but when I try to add entries and add WinXP it says some files (NTDETECT.com and NTLDR) are needed.... Where can I get them? How to copy them correctly? And I can't choose the "hard drive letter" when adding a new entry... 1. You had two partitions with windows XP 2. You deleted the wrong one. (the one that contained the boot files) solution. Extract NTDETECT.com, Command.com, and NTDLR from the XP CD, and copy them to your C: (where Windows 7 resides.) Next with easybcd, create a new entry for XP. The previous poster had it 180 degrees wrong. msconfig can not do that for you.  msconfig can only select an os that is already there to boot. good luck |
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| 10-03-2009 | #15 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by termikxs Hi all... I have downloaded EasyBCD but when I try to add entries and add WinXP it says some files (NTDETECT.com and NTLDR) are needed.... Where can I get them? How to copy them correctly? And I can't choose the "hard drive letter" when adding a new entry... Post a screenshot of Disk Management window, like this: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...en-forums.html  Somebody will post up the files you need - ntldr, ntdetect.com and a properly configured boot.ini. They need to be placed on the SYSTEM partition - then you can add the XP entry. I assume you are using Easybcd 1.7.2. |
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| 10-03-2009 | #16 |
| | Hi Siw2, The OP dropped his question and never came back. I'm 10-7 until he decides to come back and give us something to work with. Greetings |
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| 10-03-2009 | #17 |
| | Have a good night. |
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| 10-03-2009 | #18 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by SIW2 Have a good night.  |
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| 10-03-2009 | #19 |
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| 10-04-2009 | #20 |
| | Hey guys .. Something has gone terribly wrong... I really dunno WTH is with that computer. i have copied files NTLDR, NTDETECT.com from XP CD to Win 7 C:/ Drive... Then I have added entry in EasyBCD..... Each time I try to boot to Win XP it says "Invalid BOOT.ini" so I have copied boot.ini from the XPBOOTFILES.zip to XP Partition... But without effect... |
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