Hi,

I successfully dual-booted Windows XP and Vista, and used VistaBootPro to restore the boot loader. I Successfully entered Windows XP and then after restarting, successfully entered Vista, but now when the Operating System selector comes up and I want to boot into XP, it comes up with:

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Windows failed to start. A hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem: 1. Insert Windows installation disk then restart 2. Choose language settings and then click Next 3. Click repair your computer If you don't have this disk then contact the administrator File \ ntldr Status: 0xc000000e Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt

Any ideas on how to fix this problem? Or is it simply a case of using VistaBootPro all the time to restore booting into XP?

Is there anyone that can help me? I really need to get back into XP.

Thanks in advance.

rushhour - I have a nearly identical problem in that I get the same error message when attempting to boot to XP after ghost/cloning my original XP drive to a larger drive. I was able to dual boot no problem before but now I can't boot from the Boot Manager screen into XP. I don't have a solution yet either and am waiting for a response to my last question.

Try the guide below.

Your three files for XP to boot are not in the correct location

Dual Boot Trouble Shooting Guide / Vista Running

rushhour,

Can you post a the contents of VBP -> Overview -> All? I think it is just a matter of an incorrect setting for your partition drive for XP.

NT50 wrote:

Your three files for XP to boot are not in the correct location

I now have the three xp files in the root directory of both drives (XP and Vista) and I still have the same problem as rushhour.

figurado - Why hijack my personal help thread? I find it confusing now that someone else has posted into this thread with their problem, and by the way, I have not got the same problem as you what the hell is ghost cloning?!

jbullard - my overview file is shown below:

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Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier              {bootmgr} device                  partition=C: description             Windows Boot Manager locale                  en-US inherit                 {globalsettings} default                 {current} resumeobject            {0edb023f-72f9-11db-ab67-ee8972af9baa} displayorder            {current}                         {ntldr} toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag} timeout                 30 Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier              {current} device                  partition=C: path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe description             Microsoft Windows Vista locale                  en-US inherit                 {bootloadersettings} recoverysequence        {572bcd55-ffa7-11d9-aae0-0007e994107d} recoveryenabled         Yes osdevice                partition=C: systemroot              \Windows resumeobject            {0edb023f-72f9-11db-ab67-ee8972af9baa} nx                      OptIn Resume from Hibernate --------------------- identifier              {0edb023f-72f9-11db-ab67-ee8972af9baa} device                  partition=C: path                    \Windows\system32\winresume.exe description             Windows Resume Application locale                  en-US inherit                 {resumeloadersettings} filedevice              partition=C: filepath                \hiberfil.sys pae                     Yes debugoptionenabled      No Windows Memory Tester --------------------- identifier              {memdiag} device                  partition=C: path                    \boot\memtest.exe description             Windows Memory Diagnostic locale                  en-US inherit                 {globalsettings} badmemoryaccess         Yes Windows Legacy OS Loader ------------------------ identifier              {ntldr} device                  unknown path                    \ntldr description             Microsoft Windows XP EMS Settings ------------ identifier              {emssettings} bootems                 Yes Debugger Settings ----------------- identifier              {dbgsettings} debugtype               Serial debugport               1 baudrate                115200 RAM Defects ----------- identifier              {badmemory} Global Settings --------------- identifier              {globalsettings} inherit                 {dbgsettings}                         {emssettings}                         {badmemory} Boot Loader Settings -------------------- identifier              {bootloadersettings} inherit                 {globalsettings} Resume Loader Settings ---------------------- identifier              {resumeloadersettings} inherit                 {globalsettings}

Hope you can help!

Edit - changed it to overall > all

rushhour, you need to check and see if you have the 3 files, NTDETECT, NTLDR, and boot.ini, in the root directory of the drive marked as system, boot, in your didk management screen.

rushhour wrote:

figurado - Why hijack my personal help thread? I find it confusing now that someone else has posted into this thread with their problem, and by the way, I have not got the same problem as you what the hell is ghost cloning?!

If you will reread you may figure out that I was trying to help. Unless I'm mistaken this is a public forum. I did not hijack "your" thread at all. My problem was very similar to yours.

Despite the similar canned advice I was given the location of the boot files was not the issue and it may not be in your situation. When you upgrade a hard drive you typically clone it and ghost was the original application to accomplish that task.

yeshuas wrote:

rushhour, you need to check and see if you have the 3 files, NTDETECT, NTLDR, and boot.ini, in the root directory of the drive marked as system, boot, in your didk management screen.

I can't seem to find them, I have unchecked the the box for the 'hide protected operating system files' but I do not see them. I assume I have to look in the System folder on my XP drive?