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Postby JabbaPapa on Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:35 am

Try editing it so that it has:

[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 Professional" /FASTDETECT
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /FASTDETECT

...

The second XP boot entry should work

If so, you can edit boot.ini again to get rid of the dud...
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Postby Grav!ty on Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:40 am

Does the XP installation appear on the boot menu?

If it does then try adding /NoExecute=OptIn as shown below.

[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 Professional" /NoExecute=OptIn /FASTDETECT

By the way is your system set in BIOS to use your raid array as the first boot device?

From within Vista enter the command bcdedit into the command prompt and see what it shows for the entry {ntldr}, the bit I bolded.


Windows Legacy OS Loader
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identifier {ntldr}
device partition=C:
path \ntldr
description Earlier version of Windows
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Postby Tatiania on Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:32 am

My Legacy OS Loader

"Windows Legacy OS Loader
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identifier {eeff91e3-1481-11db-bd60-0015f21436a5}
device partition=D:
path \ntldr
description Earlier version of Windows"

How can I add my boot.ini to WinXP? Maybe bootsect.exe will help? I'm lost, and yes, my computer is still set to boot from my RAID setup.

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Postby jrfree1 on Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:59 am

Hi Tati, sorry you are still having difficulties, but not to worry, we will get it sorted out :yesnod:

Have you tried editing your boot.ini as suggested in the earlier posts?

When you boot into Vista, if you installed from a DVD, Vista will always see itself as C: drive and rename the other drives based upon this. This does not effect the physical location of the partition on the disk, but it can be quite confusing to see your drive letters change.

There are still a number of things we can try, and we will help you get things fixed up. Your boot.ini should be located on your main system drive in the root. (in your case, if your system is set to boot from your XP partition on the RAID drive, the file should be in D:\ in Vista from the way you have described things) You usually have to change it's permissions from read only to edit it.
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Postby Grav!ty on Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:06 pm

You can also try this command at the command prompt in Windows Vista Tatiania:

bcdedit /set {eeff91e3-1481-11db-bd60-0015f21436a5} device partition=D:

That is your XP GUID identifier from your post and it is possible that because Vista is seeing XP as being on your D drive that this will work.
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Postby Tatiania on Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:00 pm

Ok, morning guys. Tried the different edits of boot.ini and no change. This is the newest boot.ini to go into the root drive of XP. (My real XP drive)

[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 Professional" /FASTDETECT


Next I tried this...

bcdedit /set {eeff91e3-1481-11db-bd60-0015f21436a5} device partition=D:

The response the computer said was "The operation completed successfully" I don't know what I had just done, but the computer seemed to like it. So, that is where we are now...and I don't know where to go from here.
BTW, thank you all so much for helping me anyway you can. I'm sincerely grateful to you all. :notworthy

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Postby jrfree1 on Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:29 pm

Hi Tati,

I believe that I may have an answer, but it is a bit complicated so if you have any difficulties with the steps, just let me know.

The problem lies with the fact that you seem to have no defualt BCD ID of {ntldr} without this default entry, it seems that XP will not boot, even if you have another entry that specifies the same path. It seems that even if this item is deleted by one means or another from the BCD store so it doesn't show up in the listings, it may still be registered somehow in the BCD store.

Since you can boot into Vista, this can be accomplished there. Before you begin, you will need to go into Vista's disk management (right click on My Computer, select Manage, then in the window that opens, select disk management) Once you are in disk management, verify the drive letter of the partition where XP is (I believe you said that Vista sees it as D). Once you have confirmed this drive letter, follow the next steps exactly.

<li>1.) From the start menu, go to accessories, and locate the command prompt, right click on it and select 'Run as Administrator'

<li>2.) In the command prompt type in: bcdedit /delete {ntldr} /f
(you should get a message that says operation completed successfully - if you don't then don't worry, that just means that entry is gone completely already)

<li>3.) In the command prompt type in: bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d "XP"
(where D is the drive letter that Vista sees XP as)

<li>4.) In the command prompt type in: bcdedit /set {ntldr} device partition=D:
(where D is the drive letter that Vista sees XP as)

<li>5.) In the command prompt type in: bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ntldr

<li>6.) In the command prompt type in: bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast

at the end of each of the above commands you should see 'The operation completed successfully'

Once this is done, reboot and select XP from the menu - hopefully this will get you into XP :yesnod:
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Postby gries818 on Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:29 pm

Does everything work now???
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Postby Tatiania on Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:52 pm

After doing all of that, am I supposed to be using VB2.0 to change which OS I wanna boot into?

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Postby jrfree1 on Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:54 pm

After doing all that, you need to reboot and see if XP and Vista show up on the boot menu, and if you can get into XP finally :yesnod:

Don't do anything with VBP yet until we see if you can get into XP
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