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July 14th 10, 10:47 AM
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Multi Boot problems
Oh Wise Ones,
My Dell came with Vista (dual 320GB drives). I partitioned 50GB for Windows 7. Dual boot- no problems. Then I added an additional 1.5TB drive for XP (for legacy games) . I partitioned the whole 1.5TB for XP and installed my XP Pro. Now when I boot, it boots up directly into XP. So I figured I needed a seperate boot manager. I installed a manager and it sees my other drives/os's. But when I selected either one of them for bootup, I got a MBR missing error. What am I missing? The other drives appear untouched, read and write capable, but not bootable. Thanks, Mike 
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July 14th 10, 11:12 AM
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On 07/14/2010 04:47 AM, Mike K wrote:
Oh Wise Ones, My Dell came with Vista (dual 320GB drives). I partitioned 50GB for Windows 7. Dual boot- no problems. Then I added an additional 1.5TB drive for XP (for legacy games) . I partitioned the whole 1.5TB for XP and installed my XP Pro. Now when I boot, it boots up directly into XP. So I figured I needed a seperate boot manager. I installed a manager and it sees my other drives/os's. But when I selected either one of them for bootup, I got a MBR missing error. What am I missing? The other drives appear untouched, read and write capable, but not bootable. Thanks, Mike http://www.heiser.net/posts/3256
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July 14th 10, 11:12 AM
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On 07/14/2010 04:47 AM, Mike K wrote:
Oh Wise Ones, My Dell came with Vista (dual 320GB drives). I partitioned 50GB for Windows 7. Dual boot- no problems. Then I added an additional 1.5TB drive for XP (for legacy games) . I partitioned the whole 1.5TB for XP and installed my XP Pro. Now when I boot, it boots up directly into XP. So I figured I needed a seperate boot manager. I installed a manager and it sees my other drives/os's. But when I selected either one of them for bootup, I got a MBR missing error. What am I missing? The other drives appear untouched, read and write capable, but not bootable. Thanks, Mike http://www.heiser.net/posts/3256
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July 14th 10, 05:03 PM
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Mike - number one rule - always install the "earliest" Windows
version first - in your case order would be -XP, Vista, Win 7. Google or Bing for "VistaBootPro" - an utility that will provide a solution. BTW - consider Windows Virtual PC and Win XP Mode for Win 7.
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July 14th 10, 05:03 PM
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Mike - number one rule - always install the "earliest" Windows
version first - in your case order would be -XP, Vista, Win 7. Google or Bing for "VistaBootPro" - an utility that will provide a solution. BTW - consider Windows Virtual PC and Win XP Mode for Win 7.
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July 14th 10, 10:10 PM
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Download EasyBCD2 - it will help you solve your problems.
"Mike K" wrote in message ... Oh Wise Ones, My Dell came with Vista (dual 320GB drives). I partitioned 50GB for Windows 7. Dual boot- no problems. Then I added an additional 1.5TB drive for XP (for legacy games) . I partitioned the whole 1.5TB for XP and installed my XP Pro. Now when I boot, it boots up directly into XP. So I figured I needed a seperate boot manager. I installed a manager and it sees my other drives/os's. But when I selected either one of them for bootup, I got a MBR missing error. What am I missing? The other drives appear untouched, read and write capable, but not bootable. Thanks, Mike
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July 14th 10, 10:10 PM
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Download EasyBCD2 - it will help you solve your problems.
"Mike K" wrote in message ... Oh Wise Ones, My Dell came with Vista (dual 320GB drives). I partitioned 50GB for Windows 7. Dual boot- no problems. Then I added an additional 1.5TB drive for XP (for legacy games) . I partitioned the whole 1.5TB for XP and installed my XP Pro. Now when I boot, it boots up directly into XP. So I figured I needed a seperate boot manager. I installed a manager and it sees my other drives/os's. But when I selected either one of them for bootup, I got a MBR missing error. What am I missing? The other drives appear untouched, read and write capable, but not bootable. Thanks, Mike
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July 15th 10, 09:09 AM
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Assuming you didn't change the boot drive when you installed the 1.5TB
drive (this means the motherboard Bios still boots from the same 320GB drive), when you installed XP, Windows setup wrote the XP boot sector on the 320GB drive containing the Windows system partition. This causes booting directly into XP. What you should have done after installing XP was rewrite the boot sector with the one for Windows 7 that runs boot manager instead of XP's ntldr. The command to do this is bootsect.exe which comes with Windows 7. Changing the boot sector will cause booting into Windows 7. Then use the command bcdedit to add XP's ntldr to Windows 7 boot manager BCD to enable dual boot. On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:47:36 -0700, Mike K wrote: Oh Wise Ones, My Dell came with Vista (dual 320GB drives). I partitioned 50GB for Windows 7. Dual boot- no problems. Then I added an additional 1.5TB drive for XP (for legacy games) . I partitioned the whole 1.5TB for XP and installed my XP Pro. Now when I boot, it boots up directly into XP. So I figured I needed a seperate boot manager. I installed a manager and it sees my other drives/os's. But when I selected either one of them for bootup, I got a MBR missing error. What am I missing? The other drives appear untouched, read and write capable, but not bootable. Thanks, Mike
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July 15th 10, 09:09 AM
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Assuming you didn't change the boot drive when you installed the 1.5TB
drive (this means the motherboard Bios still boots from the same 320GB drive), when you installed XP, Windows setup wrote the XP boot sector on the 320GB drive containing the Windows system partition. This causes booting directly into XP. What you should have done after installing XP was rewrite the boot sector with the one for Windows 7 that runs boot manager instead of XP's ntldr. The command to do this is bootsect.exe which comes with Windows 7. Changing the boot sector will cause booting into Windows 7. Then use the command bcdedit to add XP's ntldr to Windows 7 boot manager BCD to enable dual boot. On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:47:36 -0700, Mike K wrote: Oh Wise Ones, My Dell came with Vista (dual 320GB drives). I partitioned 50GB for Windows 7. Dual boot- no problems. Then I added an additional 1.5TB drive for XP (for legacy games) . I partitioned the whole 1.5TB for XP and installed my XP Pro. Now when I boot, it boots up directly into XP. So I figured I needed a seperate boot manager. I installed a manager and it sees my other drives/os's. But when I selected either one of them for bootup, I got a MBR missing error. What am I missing? The other drives appear untouched, read and write capable, but not bootable. Thanks, Mike
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July 17th 10, 12:13 PM
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:03:34 -0400, just as I was about to take a
herb, "Al" disturbed my reverie and wrote: Mike - number one rule - always install the "earliest" Windows version first - in your case order would be -XP, Vista, Win 7. No, fist rule is to buy some decent software to make your life easier so you don't have to bother installing in ANY order.
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July 17th 10, 12:13 PM
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On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:03:34 -0400, just as I was about to take a
herb, "Al" disturbed my reverie and wrote: Mike - number one rule - always install the "earliest" Windows version first - in your case order would be -XP, Vista, Win 7. No, fist rule is to buy some decent software to make your life easier so you don't have to bother installing in ANY order.
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