Restoring Dual boot Xp/Win 7 to single boot Xp

Do you mean Powershell? I just tried looking up help for bootsect and it says it's not a recognized command.

In Easybcd 2.0 under Useful Utilities.

Don't you have that installed on 7 already?

His screenies: Restoring Dual boot Xp/Win 7 to single boot Xp

I would do a repair install of XP with Win7 unplugged to make it fully independent to boot via BIOS boot order and F8 BootMenu key.

But SIW2 should have the advanced commands.

Ah, ok. Yea, I have EBCD installed on Win7. Just ran that command and said it worked successfully. We'll see what happens when I boot into Xp later on.

You guys are awesome.

If you still have trouble booting into XP - there could be some damage to XP boot files.

SIW2 said:

If you still have trouble booting into XP - there could be some damage to XP boot files.

Which could be fixed by an XP repair install, possible?

See if XP boots fine now. If not - replace the boot files - Easy has them.

SIW2 said:

See if XP boots fine now. If not - replace the boot files - Easy has them.

Is it the tab: Manage Bootloader>Uninstall Vista bootloader (use to restore XP)?

But does XP here have a Vista bootloader, or does it restore the boot files anyway?

7 bootfiles shouldn't be on the XP HD - if he wants totally separate installations selecting via key.

If he's still having trouble booting XP :

ntdetect.com and ntldr are in Easy profiles folder - copy to XP partition if necessary.

Also check boot.ini is there and pointing the right way.