I recently installed XP 32bit on a secondary drive so I could boot to it when needed. When I switch the boot priority back to boot to my 7 drive it tells me that NTLDR is missing. During the XP install I didn't touch this other drive so I'm not sure where I went wrong. Short of reinstalling 7 on my main drive (and risking this same thing happening to the XP drive) is there anything I can do?
I might add that these are IDE drives; this may be a sign that I need to move on :o
If you left the Windows 7 drive plugged in while installing XP, then XP modified it. When you install multiple operating systems, they have to modify the first drive in the system (drive C:\ usually) with their boot loader in order to boot.
About the only thing I can suggest would be to put the Windows 7 install CD in and see if you can repair it.
Yeah, I definitely forgot to remove the w7 drive.
I'll definitely try to repair it with the cd, thank you for the help!
Really? I've installed XP on Win7 systems, Win7 on XP systems and never had problems like that. Drives were plugged in and everything.
[QUOTE=dArKnEsS_2;21621382]Really? I've installed XP on Win7 systems, Win7 on XP systems and never had problems like that. Drives were plugged in and everything.[/QUOTE]
They should have problems. Win7 uses an updated version of NTFS that XP doesn't manage correctly (the boot portion, not the files. They're OK). That's why installing XP after Win7 while dual booting is a bad idea.
[QUOTE=Shining_Sabe;21621537]They shouldn't. Win7 uses an updated version of NTFS that XP doesn't recognize. That's why installing XP after Win7 while dual booting is a bad idea.[/QUOTE]
Uh it can recognize it just fine.
It concerns me that your BOOTMGR was deleted and wasn't even replaced with NTLDR. You need to boot into WinPE and run startup repair. After you get into 7 you need to create an NTLDR file and have BOOTMGR and the BCD point to it.
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