Here is the story.
I got the Windows 7 RC way back but didn't install it till last night. Just wanted to look at it with it, not really a big deal. It obviously starts doing that bi-hourly shut down, what, next week?
Here is my dilemna. When installing Windows 7 last night I went through these processes. I won't give the reasons for everything I did, just tell you what happened.
I started with an HP laptop with 3 partitions: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Recovery Partition. First, I put in the Windows 7 DVD, opened up Run, and then put in the E:\Boot\Bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force or something like that (I've lost the link to the website I used for this step). I should have probabaly used EasyBCD for this step, but were past it. Using GParted I deleted the Recovery and Vista Partitions, enlarged the XP partition to 3/4s of the hard drive, creating about 25GB for Windows 7. Ran it, worked great.
Restarted with the Windows 7 DVD, installed Windows 7 to the smaller partition, worked great, booted it, installed drivers, etc. No sweat. I'm using it right now to do this, so its no big deal.
Now my problem. I used EasyBCD to set up the boot manager to throw XP in there and when I tried to boot into Windows XP I got a message about NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM not being detected on my XP partition. It said to put the Windows XP cd in and do a repair. Well, I tried. The XP ISO CD ran right through it and installed another copy of Windows XP on top of my other copy. They are sitting on the partition together, Windows.0 folders and everything.
Obviously none of my programs installed under the previous version of Windows XP work properly and it thinks it is a clean install. I need to get XP working right, hopefully by simply removing the new installation of Windows XP. Either through a repair of some kind or a simply restoring the NT.... files.
I do not have a system image to restore too (stupid me) though I do have all of my essential documents off of the hard drive on an external drive. I should have created an image to restore to, but I didn't think about it at all.
Obviously I will not make the same mistake when I remove Windows 7 later on this week.
Also, Windows XP (the new one) recognizes another "drive" of some kind that Windows 7 does not see. Its called System Volume Information or Manager, I cannot remember which one. It is listed in My Computer just like the C:\ and D:\ partitions.
Ok, so any thoughts? Thanks in advance guys.
I got the Windows 7 RC way back but didn't install it till last night. Just wanted to look at it with it, not really a big deal. It obviously starts doing that bi-hourly shut down, what, next week?
Here is my dilemna. When installing Windows 7 last night I went through these processes. I won't give the reasons for everything I did, just tell you what happened.
I started with an HP laptop with 3 partitions: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Recovery Partition. First, I put in the Windows 7 DVD, opened up Run, and then put in the E:\Boot\Bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force or something like that (I've lost the link to the website I used for this step). I should have probabaly used EasyBCD for this step, but were past it. Using GParted I deleted the Recovery and Vista Partitions, enlarged the XP partition to 3/4s of the hard drive, creating about 25GB for Windows 7. Ran it, worked great.
Restarted with the Windows 7 DVD, installed Windows 7 to the smaller partition, worked great, booted it, installed drivers, etc. No sweat. I'm using it right now to do this, so its no big deal.
Now my problem. I used EasyBCD to set up the boot manager to throw XP in there and when I tried to boot into Windows XP I got a message about NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM not being detected on my XP partition. It said to put the Windows XP cd in and do a repair. Well, I tried. The XP ISO CD ran right through it and installed another copy of Windows XP on top of my other copy. They are sitting on the partition together, Windows.0 folders and everything.
Obviously none of my programs installed under the previous version of Windows XP work properly and it thinks it is a clean install. I need to get XP working right, hopefully by simply removing the new installation of Windows XP. Either through a repair of some kind or a simply restoring the NT.... files.
I do not have a system image to restore too (stupid me) though I do have all of my essential documents off of the hard drive on an external drive. I should have created an image to restore to, but I didn't think about it at all.
Obviously I will not make the same mistake when I remove Windows 7 later on this week.
Also, Windows XP (the new one) recognizes another "drive" of some kind that Windows 7 does not see. Its called System Volume Information or Manager, I cannot remember which one. It is listed in My Computer just like the C:\ and D:\ partitions.
Ok, so any thoughts? Thanks in advance guys.
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