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triple boot system installed xp after win7 and 8-boot problems
So i had a win 7 and 8 dual boot system where
partition-
0 was sys reserved
1 was 7
2 was 8
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i needed win xp for a piece of software so i shrunk my partition 1 (biggest and win 7)
and grabbed 40 gb for my xp install.
installed xp and obviously lost my boot loader for 7 and 8 so when i booted xp i installed easybcd and it showed my only boot loader was for 7 and 8 (even tho i was logged into xp. im guessing xp made it so that its partition now partition 2 was the boot partition.
but easybcd is still seeing part. 0 sys reserved as the boot. when i changed my active partition back to sys reserved it found the win 7 and 8 options but when i try to load 7 goes bsod for a second then restarts. 8 says error: inaccessible boot device.
how can i fix this? i repointed the boot partition back to xp so that i could log on here to talk to you all.
easybcd doesnt not even recognize a boot loader for xp. when im in xp it says my only bootloaders are for 7 and 8. WTF????
how could i completely recreate a boot manager for all 3?