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No boot without installation disk
I just installed Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium yesterday from iso burned onto a disk. I have been running XP 32 Home edition for years. I installed Win7 on a different partition on the same disk as XP. If I restarted the computer without the W7 install disk in the drive, XP would boot up and I would not get a menu to choose between XP and W7 like I did back when I was running the W7 beta early in the year. When I put the install disk in, it will go straight to W7 without a menu to choose from as well. I then went into disk management in W7 and chose the W7 partition as the active disk. It listed the partition as boot, so I assumed it was good to go. I then restarted the computer without the install disk in, but I get the NTLDR missing, press ctrl+alt+del message. So I figured the boot files on the W7 partition weren't there or were corrupt, so I booted from the W7 installation disk and used the repair utility. It detected nothing to repair, so now I am stuck. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? Shouldn't the repair utility on the installation disk detect a missing or corrupt boot file? Or is it seeing the boot file on the XP partition and I need to delete or rename it to keep the repair tool from seeing it?
edit: I just did a search for boot.ini on my computer and it is indeed in the XP partition, but no boot.ini file on my W7 partition. What is the best way to deal with this?
Last edited by Keln; 23 Oct 2009 at 18:03.