A Digital Age Deserves A Digital Leader

Cannot boot from secondary WinXP

Forum rules
Please start your own topic for support with problems you experience. Even if it appears to be exactly the same as someone else's problem, system configurations differ significantly. Thank you.

It may take our support staff between 24-48 hours to respond to your problem. We are a small business and strive to answer your questions as soon as possible. We appreciate your patience.

Cannot boot from secondary WinXP

Postby Azjo » Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:16 am

I have installed XP on a sata drive, and then Win7 on the second partition on same drive.
I have created a third entry for the first Partition on disk 0, but when i choose that entry, it will just boot from first partition on disk 1, XP.WD10.
What is the problem and how do i solve this issue?

Boot loader information:
There is currently 3 OS(s) installed on your system.
The current boot timeout is: 10

Default OS: Windows XP IDE

Entry 1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: Windows XP
BCD ID: {ntldr}
Boot Drive: Z:
System Bootloader: \ntldr

Entry 2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: Windows 7
BCD ID: {current}
Boot Drive: C:
Windows Drive: C:
System Bootloader: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry 3
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name: Windows XP IDE
BCD ID: {default}
Boot Drive: Y:
System Bootloader: \ntldr


Disk management picture is also attached.
Attachments
Capture.JPG
Capture.JPG (32.16 KiB) Viewed 1174 times
PRO Level 3
Posts: 59
Joined: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:28 pm

Re: Cannot boot from secondary WinXP

Postby NT50 » Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:35 pm

You will have to edit your boot.ini to add the second Windows XP.
Dogs Have Owners; Cats Have Staff
PROfessional Member
User avatar
Posts: 8220
Joined: Sat Jun 19, 2004 4:46 pm
Location: Jackson, TN USA
Real Name: Jeff Replogle

Re: Cannot boot from secondary WinXP

Postby Azjo » Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:25 pm

Ah, that explains why both Windows XP's goes to the same windows XPs.
I removed that in the ini, because i thought BCD could boot both XPs.
But this creates another problem, after BCD boot, choosing one of the XP's, it enters Legacy boot, and i do not want that because its a waste of time and effiency.

Is it even possible to have BCD boot only with 2 legacy boot OS's?
If so, how?
PRO Level 3
Posts: 59
Joined: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:28 pm

Re: Cannot boot from secondary WinXP

Postby NT50 » Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:49 pm

Boot.ini controls the XP boots. You choose Legacy OS and then choose which XP to boot to. There is no way around this due to two different boot procedures.
Dogs Have Owners; Cats Have Staff
PROfessional Member
User avatar
Posts: 8220
Joined: Sat Jun 19, 2004 4:46 pm
Location: Jackson, TN USA
Real Name: Jeff Replogle

Re: Cannot boot from secondary WinXP

Postby Azjo » Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:44 pm

Ah, thanks for the info.
I thought they had worked that one out but ah well :)
Might aswell manually boot from the secondary XP hd then ;)
PRO Level 3
Posts: 59
Joined: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:28 pm

Return to Windows Boot Problems

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests