Dual Boot - Vista 64 / Win7 64 - winloader.exe error

[RyanEricW]

[RESOLVED] Dual Boot - Vista64 / Win7 64 winloader.exe

I have 3 hdd's.

1 x 160GB (SATA)
- Partition: ~149GB - Win Vista64

1 x 300GB (SATA)
- Partition: ~220GB - MISC
- Partition: ~58.5GB - WIN7 64

1x 1TB (SATA)
- Partition: ~931GB - Games


I ended up taking my 300GB drive, created a logical partition, then booted into the win7 dvd I have. (win 7 - 7100?, straight off ms)

Firstly, it takes about a couple minutes just to load the files. Then once it finally gets to the splash* screen and the cursor appears.....it takes about 5-10minutes for the "install" window to appear which seems VERY odd since my machine is VERY fast. It takes quite a bit of time to accomplish installing from loading to finished (40minutes maybe)...

After everything installs when I go to choose the Windows 7 option on the boot menu, I get this black SOD
\Windows\system32\winloader.exe error 0xc000000D
Something about the file being missing or corrupt.

I took my win7 disk, and entered command prompt through recovery tools (which takes at least 5 minutes due to loading time to get to each time).
I ran DISKPART, then did LIST VOL, so it would tell me the partitions and letters.
Then I took another window, and entered bcdedit. The letters matched up with the partition letters and the file DOES exist.

Heres the result when I run bcdedit in vista.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Ryan>bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {default}
resumeobject {e1043224-8aed-11de-9058-d11f80b880c8}
displayorder {default}
{current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {default}
device partition=Y:
path \Windows\System32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=Y:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {e1043224-8aed-11de-9058-d11f80b880c8}
nx OptIn
detecthal Yes
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows Vista - 64 bit
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {fb585640-deec-11dd-9abd-e055351ad8d4}
nx OptIn

I've tried 3 different sources on 3 different DVD's to see if perhaps I had a bad image (1 x microsoft/2 x torrent), but that's not the case.
I've tried setting the path's again through bcdedit to make sure there was no data corruption in the settings, and that was not successful either...

So when I need to figure is out why it tells me the file "winloader.exe" is missing or corrupt, when in fact it is pointing to the right harddrive, on the right partition, on the right location.

Yes, they all show up on the BIOS post, yes it recognizes the 300GB drive in the setup without extra drivers. The only hdd it needs extra drivers for to see is my 1TB, but I'm not using that for the win7 installation.

Thanks

 

[Zidane24]

You are installing Windows 7 on the logical partition correct?

 

[RyanEricW]

Yes, it is a logical partition.

Screenie
http://rfiles.com/files/disks.jpg

 

[Zidane24]

Yes, it is a logical partition.

Screenie
http://rfiles.com/files/disks.jpg

That might be the issue...I am no expert in paritioning but I believe that Windows 7 needs to be in a primary partition (I think...) and be set to active...

Hopefully someone with more experience in this field can help you here...I might do some research on this

 

[Zidane24]

Actually why did to make it a logical partition to begin with?

 

[RyanEricW]

I left the default settings for the disk manager when I created the partition. I will delete the partition and see if I can format it as an active/primary partition.
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Update: Windows disk manager doesn't allow me to make any such changes.

 

[Zidane24]

I left the default settings for the disk manager when I created the partition. I will delete the partition and see if I can format it as an active/primary partition.

try that and then reinstall Win7 on it...post back your results

 

[RyanEricW]

I downloaded I believe it was "paragon partition tools"? or something as such and it let me change the partition to a primary one. I'm just wondering if I have to make it an active partition as well or if that is reserved for the main OS of the system or something...
As we speak it is installing on my main machine (im on my network "server" computer which is next to mine). I will update once it is done installing.

I'm starting to wonder if it takes forever to install because it can't read my 1TB drive and maybe its causing win7 installer to run slower than usual. Taking 10 minutes for the setup screen to show up is quite ridiculous...
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Update:
Looks like changing it to a primary partition (which took 2 seconds), resolved this problem I've been having for 3 days. LOL...
Anyhow thank you for your help, now I need to figure out how to create a independent partition to manage the loading of my OS' s instead of using VISTA's boot manager to handle all my OS's.