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Hey I have a problem, I Installed windows 7 on my main hard drive, while xp is on my 2nd hard drive. After restarting my computer, it showed the dual boot screen, it showed both as windows xp still, so when I clicked on where my main hard drive is(hopefully it would boot windows 7), it said <windows root="">system32ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt file.... So I wiped the hard drive, reinstalled windows 7 and later it said something similar... I think it's not recognizing the right hard drive, so I booted xp, ran msconfig, went to BOOT.INI check all boot paths... it says that my main hard drive doesn't have a valid operating system... any help on this would me much appreciated, thanks. Also, I went into my "Startup and Recovery" section, I clicked edit on the startup options file and it had this [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer I'm pretty sure the second one is my main hard drive, the 1TB one. |
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What you may have to do is to do it in reverse order. Windows Xp should be the first on the hard drive and windows on the second hard drive. Reason being is that the configuration of when windows XP as installed after windows 7 would not work. Because of the way the configuration file is written. Have you tried installing it the other way around by any other chance Timothy?? |
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I got it fixed some how, what I think happened is the xp dual boot doesn't recognize windows 7 as an operating system for the other hard drive(I'm guessing) but for some reason when I reinstalled windows 7(for the 10th time) it showed up as the windows 7 dual boot screen, where it says boot windows 7, or boot older version of windows. |
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Yeah What I would do over here. Is to install windows XP first like on the primary hard drive. Then Windows 7 on the second drive. Since windows 7 is newer or the latest from Microsoft. It will work off of windows 7 as for loading the menu and letting you choose. I could be wrong here I think that the menu option that windows XP has did not like window 7 options and all that. And was giving like a little tantrum of trying to load it. So its usually better to put the earlier versions of windows first like in progression then put windows 7 last on the list. |
