Windows 7: Xp/W7 Dual boot issue

machupichu · 19 Apr 2010

Hi everyone,

I have 2 HDD, One with XP and the other with Windows 7

yesterday, after restarting Windows 7 the dual boot option disappeared, starting with Xp automatically.
I repaired ,with Windows 7 DVD, the boot and managed to start it again but the problem is that the dual boot option is missing, any thoughts on how to repair it?

I've istalled EasyBCD and what worries me is the fact that there's only one entry detected which is in fact the Windows 7 boot's entry.

here is what the EasyBCD says:

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=C:
path \bootmgr
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
default {d254bdbe-3b96-11df-b954-e391b179b858}
displayorder {d254bdbe-3b96-11df-b954-e391b179b858}
toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout 10

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {d254bdbe-3b96-11df-b954-e391b179b858}
device partition=H:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7 Ultimate (recovered)
locale en-US
recoverysequence {d254bdbf-3b96-11df-b954-e391b179b858}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=H:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {08132a88-4b8a-11df-aa39-806e6f6e6963}

Thank you in advance

EDIT: I've managed to establish a new entry for Xp with EasyBCD and now seems to be working just fine.

Carl Lawrence · 19 Apr 2010

So you have actually fixed it?

gregrocker · 19 Apr 2010

Once you recovered the MBR to Windows 7, it needed to have XP added back to Dual Boot menu as you found. EasyBCD 2.0 is the tool for this.

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