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It appears I've a similar problem as diznanl - Windows 7’s boot menu doesn’t show up after a fresh install on a hdd with 2 partitions of WinXP on it.
A brief OS installations history of this hdd might help. Initially this hdd was dual booting WinXP x86 and Vista x64 on it. A problem occurred when I tried to ghost over both partitions to a new hdd. This caused me to remove Vista x64 and installed WinXP x64 on a new partition while retaining the original WinXP x86 on the same hdd.
I have used the bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force to remove Vista’s boot menu. So that leaves me with a legacy dual boot of WinXP x86 and x64.
Win7's on H:
Fast forward a couple of months, I then decided to install and multi boot Win7 along with both XPs. When Win7’s boot menu did not pop up as expected, I tried using the command prompt in Win7’s DVD to run:
Bootrec.exe /fixMBR
Bootrec.exe /fixBoot
The commands ran fine but I was still getting XP’s legacy boot menu without Win7. Next, I tried to “Reinstall the Vista Bootloader” using EasyBCD. It did not help either.
Interestingly, EasyBCD showed remnant settings from my previous XP-Vista dual boot. The BCD displayed 1 XP entry – kindly please refer to attached pic.
I’ve verified ntldr is on XP’s c: and not on some other data partition.
Current boot.ini
boot.ini.txt
Would you guys kindly help me to resolve this issue as well please?