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Thread ID: 106979	2010-01-31 00:18:00	Is anyone familiar with EasyBCD and Dual Booting	Tony.br (4018)	Press F1

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853735	2010-01-31 00:18:00	I have a bit of a problem, but to explain... My system has 1 x hard Drive with 2 primary partitions each containing a different copy of XP, and an extended Partition with 2 logical drives. I dual booted the TWO XP partitions by using a simple program from the DOS GHOST days called PQBOOT32.exe This simply marked the hidden partition as Active and rebooted and there it stayed until I wanted to revert to the original one. This has worked perfectly for several years. Recently I wanted to try the pre-release copy of Windows 7, so I resized my primary Partitions and created space for Windows 7 in front of the 2 existing partitions. I installed WIN7 and while I was able to switch between my main XP partition and WIN7 but I found I was unable to get into my 2nd XP partition. After some days of trials, I removed WIN7 and recovered the space, but found I still could not get into my second XP installation. It would just hang and the only way I could get back was to use an Acronis Boot CD manually change the active Partition. By the way, I have tried all the normal recovery console tools without success. Installing WIN7 had obviously messed with the boot system so I can only get into the main partition. It has remained like this for a couple of months when I heard about EasyBCD. I installed this and this is what it tells me. ~~~~~ There are a total of 2 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader. Bootloader Timeout: 24 seconds. Default OS: Earlier Version of Windows Entry #1 Name: Earlier Version of Windows BCD ID: {ntldr} Drive: C:\ Bootloader Path: \ntldr Entry #2 Name: Windows 7 BCD ID: {2d24fb4f-ca69-11de-a1fd-d925c4d55a19} Drive: Deleted Partition Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe Windows Directory: \Windows ~~~ It has obviously installed the Vista/Win7 boot components for my 2nd XP partition but I am not familiar enough with EasyBCD to be confident enough to tackle returning it back to the correct state. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated :thanks	Tony.br (4018)
853736	2010-01-31 01:29:00	Of course you will not be able to use the second xp because Vista and & 7 use a different boot system to XP.	nedkelly (9059)
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