I have never see it freeze, but you might look in the Win 7 partition for the hidden system files I mentioned earlier. If you can get a picture of the boot.ini contents, that might help.
Also, open an Administrative command window, type bcdedit and post back a picture of that.
You haven't changed the drive order or anything, right. When you boot you get a boot menu with Win 7 and XP and going to Win 7 works normally?
yea my raptor (the drive which is entirely windows 7) boots first, and it asks me whether i want to load Windows 7 or XP, 7 works fine, XP gives me the missing \ntdlr error.
Why is F marked Active now? I would boot Partition Wizard, rightclick F>Modify>Set Inactive.
Did Easy prompt you to add the 3 boot files? It will autocomplete the drive letter. Can you post back a screenshot of the Easy listings?
Also, unhide System and Hidden files in Control Panel>Folder Options>View, then check the root of both drives for ntldr, ntdetect, boot.ini
Well, that looks OK. I think EasyBCD would have put partition=C: instead of boot, but check the boot.ini file. It should say rdisk(1)partition(1). Maybe something is keeping EasyBCD from updating the files. It is still a beta, but when I tested it, it seemed OK.
You can edit boot.ini using EasyBCD, I think under tools, legacy.
ok so in easyBCD, under Change Settings, it gives me the option to change the drive letter for each entry, the XP entry is listed as BOOT, should i change that to C: or to E: since xp is installed on the E partition?
the boot ini says:
[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP on E:\" /fastdetect
If XP is on the second partition, then it would be Partition(2). You can try changing it to C:, but it may not make a difference.
As gregrocker says, if there is no OS on a partition, it should not be marked active, so F: should not be active, but I do not know if it would effect the current situation.
i did what greg said and now E is the active partition on that drive, how ever i still cant boot into XP
Did Easy prompt you to add the 3 boot files when you Added XP? It will autocomplete the drive letter. Can you post back a screenshot of the Easy listings?
Also, unhide System and Hidden files in Control Panel>Folder Options>View, then check the root of both drives for ntldr, ntdetect, boot.ini. Copy if missing so all 3 appear in the root of both OS drives
Last edited by gregrocker; 02 Feb 2010 at 00:55.
alright, so i dont have any of those files in either of the root directories, and like i said earlier, easybcd locks up when i hit accept when it asks me if i want to install the 3 files.... the screen shot shows the contents of both root directories, and my easy bcd list and bootloader entries. is there anywhere i can just get those files and copy them into both directories? seems like that shouldn't be too hard....
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