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Win 7 will not boot XP on separate hard drive
Was dual booting Win XP with Slackware Linux using LILO as the boot manager. Linux and XP were both
on separate hard drives. Story short, MB shorted and I decided to simply install the XP HD in a computer
with Win 7 on the first HD. All startup files on the XP drive are in place; ntldr, ntdetect.com, boot.ini.
I added the following to the BCD file using bcdedit on Win 7:
bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d "Windows XP"
bcdedit /set {ntldr} device partition=E:
bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ntldr
bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast
Every entry was successful and Windows XP appeared in the boot menu as expected. However, after
selecting Windows XP to boot, the screen goes dark, one beep is heard and the hardware bootup
screen appears again.
Anything I missed? Still can't boot into Win XP.