Need some help with the boot loader

Lordbob75 said:

Download it from somewhere, or use EasyBCD to get it, in the bottom tab.

This might fix it. Also try rebuilding the mbr, as suggested before.

~Lordbob

Will do, hopefully one of these will work.

Luckystar said:

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

Gonna try it tonight. Thanks!

SIW2 said:

Hi mudfrog,

It would help if you post screenshots of Disk Management, like this :

Attachment 19125

and bcdedit ( type cmd in start seacrh box - when it pops up, rt click and run as admin- type bcdedit- press enter ):

Attachment 19124

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...en-forums.html

Very easy to fix....keep it simple. DO IT THE MS WAY.
at start -> msconfig -> option BOOT -> click XP and set to default.
click save, theN reboot. FAST EASY AND SIMPLE TO DO.

Snuffy said:

Very easy to fix....keep it simple. DO IT THE MS WAY.
at start -> msconfig -> option BOOT -> click XP and set to default.
click save, theN reboot. FAST EASY AND SIMPLE TO DO.

I looked at this last night but from the Boot tab XP is not listed only Win7, yet in BCDEDIT both are listed.

Lordbob75 said:

I didn't think it would be.

Oh well, it was good you checked.

Have you tried iReboot?

~Lordbob

Not yet. I might reinstall 7 again as I'm having issues with this installation that I was not having before. Programs are crashing more frequently and sometimes it only recognizes my quad core as a single core cpu. I'll go ahead and try iReboot tonight before I do that though.

Set Disk 0 as the first HD in Bios boot order.

That should save a reinstall.

I tried rebuilding the bcd and changing hdd boot order and neither worked. I just got in from playing 2 softball games so I'm beat.. I'll try ireboot tomorrow, I'm not holding my breath though. Thanks for the help so far guys.

I tried ireboot and it did not work either. It tried to boot XP but caused an automatic system reboot just like if I selected XP from the boot screen. I'll probably eventually just reinstall both OS's.. just a huge pain.

Probably be easiest to reinstall 7 on the partition it is on now.

Make sure Disk1 is first HD in Bios boot order before reinstalling 7.

Then add an XP entry to bcd.