Windows 7: Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP

You're most welcome Roy.

Can't get XP to load I get an error maybe because I didn't load my raid drivers ? Took my floppy out long ago since it does not work any more.



Any way I'm loading Vista right now.

Hello mdttb,

If you have a USB flash key drive with a motherboard that supports booting to it, then you could use it instead to load the RAID drivers from during installation.

Hi everybody.
I have followed your excellent tutorial, and have managed to install a dual boot setup...... Nearly!
When I turn on my PC, I get the choice of OS, Windows 7 first, then XP underneath it.
If I selct Windows 7, the PC fires up perfectly and loads up. If I select XP, I get a message that reads;
"Windows failed to start"....... File: \NTLDR
Status: 0xc000000f

Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Adam

Hi,

Boot into 7, go to folder options, make sure Hidden files and folders and protected operating system files are showing.

Have a look on the active partition and see if Xp bootfiles are there as well as 7 bootfiles.

You may like to post a screenshot of that partition , and also of the Disk Management window.

To post a screenshot , click the Go Advanced button at the bottom of this page and follow step 8 onward of this tutorial.

How to use the Snipping Tool in Vista - Vista Forums

Another thing that would be useful is a shot of bcdedit ( or copy and paste the contents of the cmd window).

Open an elevated cmd prompt, type:

bcdedit {enter}

Hi.

I'm afraid I'm having a couple of problems this evening!

The command bcdedit resulted in "The boot configuration data store could not be opened. Access is denied."

I will try and post a screenshot of the boot folder in a mo........

This is all a bit new for me!

You need to Elevate the cmd prompt to admin level.

Type cmd in start search - when it pops up, rt click and run as admin.

LOL - that's ok , it's tricky the first time for everyone.

I can't post a screenshot at the moment.
The C drive has a single folder called 'boot'. Inside it there a number of other folders which appear to be language related. The other files are BCD, BCD, BCD.LOG1, BCD.LOG2 & BOOTSTAT.DAT

Windows 7

Win 7 is installed on another machine at the moment, and it doesn't have network access at the moment. I hope to have that sorted out by tomorrow though! Time. There's just never enough of it!

Hi,

Don't need a screenie of the boot folder - need one of the whole active partition, to see if ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini are there as well as bootmgr and boot folder.

Thanks for your help. I managed to run CMD as administrator, and it returned lots of information, which unfortunately, I can't post as a screenshot at the moment!
There is a section that refers to Real-Mode Boot Sector: Device E [XP partition], path: NTLDR, Description: Microsoft Windows XP.

In the active partition [Windows 7 (C: ] ntldr, NTDETECT, boot and bootmgr are all present.