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790511 2009-07-10 02:03:00 After installing Windows 7 on on partition and XP on the other (XP installed first), I am getting this error :

Invalid boot.ini file
Booting from d:\WINDOWS
NTDETECT Failed.

At first after installing 7, there was no entry for XP. So i created one using EasyBCD. But it said NTDETECT and ntldr was missing and had to download a copy. And then I extracted it to d:\.

I'm pretty sure 7 deleted and messed up some of Xp's system files.
mathsgood (13356)
790512 2009-07-10 02:04:00 and i don't have the recovery console or the repair option either (on my XP Disk) mathsgood (13356)
790513 2009-07-10 03:18:00 www.thecomputerparamedic.com

Thats Recovery Console^^
Burn it to a CD then boot from it and follow instructions here to rebuild boot.ini:
support.microsoft.com

Blam
Blam (54)
790514 2009-07-11 02:45:00 thanks mathsgood (13356)
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