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Dylan · 06-28-09

So I built a pc for a friend with windows 7, but he has some games that required xp to work. We decided to put xp on and dual boot. Naturally I cant boot to 7 once XP is installed. So I pull out my handy 7 rc disk and use the repair option in hopes I will see the boot manager menu. But it just went straight into 7. So I went into disk management and set both drives to have an active operating system on them. Now when I boot I get the ntldr error. So I pull the 7 repair disc out AGAIN lol and try it, but this time to no avail. I did try the easy boot cd, but it would not let me select the second harddrive when I wanted it to have 2 OS's on the boot menu. Now i'd be happy if I could just get into 7. Any suggestions?

**IEATFISH** · 06-28-09

Put in the 7 disk and get to where you Repair the installation. Instead, open the command prompt option and type:

Code:

bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot

Then restart. That should restore the 7 boot manager. I find that doing it manually since you know the problem usually works more often than the generic Repair option.

Then use EasyBCD or MSconfig to add XP after you get that sorted out. You shouldn't set them both to be active.

Dylan · 06-28-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by IEATFISH

Put in the 7 disk and get to where you Repair the installation. Instead, open the command prompt option and type:

Code:

bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot

Then restart. That should restore the 7 boot manager. I find that doing it manually since you know the problem usually works more often than the generic Repair option.

Then use EasyBCD or MSconfig to add XP after you get that sorted out. You shouldn't set them both to be active.

Now it says the boot manger is missing

Error 404 · 06-28-09

Now try using the repair option, once with the XP disk, and once with the 7 disk...That happened to me a bit back.

You can go into MSCONFIG and remove the "Recovered" tags if you want.

**IEATFISH** · 06-28-09

Did it see your Windows 7 installation? You may try the repair option now.

DaMirrorLink · 06-28-09

this may be a little offtopic, but what game does he have that only works in xp?

ive encountered no games that do not work in windows 7 besides xTrap anti-cheat games

Dylan · 06-28-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by IEATFISH

Did it see your Windows 7 installation? You may try the repair option now.

Okay, got the boot manager window with a 30 sec timeout. 7 works, XP does not. I'll repair that one next.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaMirrorLink

this may be a little offtopic, but what game does he have that only works in xp?

ive encountered no games that do not work in windows 7 besides xTrap anti-cheat games

Bioshock has issues and compatability mode causes resolution issues. Several 90's games he has as well don't play nicely.

Dylan · 06-28-09

(damn double post...)

Can't seem to get xp recovery to work. Its on the second harddrive (E) and the recovery console only will let me recover the drive 7 is on (C) or the dvd drive that Im running the xp cd off, (D).

**IEATFISH** · 06-28-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dylan

(damn double post...)

Can't seem to get xp recovery to work. Its on the second harddrive (E) and the recovery console only will let me recover the drive 7 is on (C) or the dvd drive that Im running the xp cd off, (D).

Can you add XP to the 7 manager using EasyBCD?

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Dylan Networking Nut Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 3,630 Rep: 213 Unique Rep: 153 Folding Team Rank: 1141 Trader Rating: 6	Boot Manager woes So I built a pc for a friend with windows 7, but he has some games that required xp to work. We decided to put xp on and dual boot. Naturally I cant boot to 7 once XP is installed. So I pull out my handy 7 rc disk and use the repair option in hopes I will see the boot manager menu. But it just went straight into 7. So I went into disk management and set both drives to have an active operating system on them. Now when I boot I get the ntldr error. So I pull the 7 repair disc out AGAIN lol and try it, but this time to no avail. I did try the easy boot cd, but it would not let me select the second harddrive when I wanted it to have 2 OS's on the boot menu. Now i'd be happy if I could just get into 7. Any suggestions?

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Dylan Networking Nut Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 3,630 Rep: 213 Unique Rep: 153 Folding Team Rank: 1141 Trader Rating: 6	(damn double post...) Can't seem to get xp recovery to work. Its on the second harddrive (E) and the recovery console only will let me recover the drive 7 is on (C) or the dvd drive that Im running the xp cd off, (D).

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