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Originally Posted by sisma  Hello all.
I have been looking through all the posts and did not see a clear example of booting when you have 2 different drives.
I loaded a new drive onto my Vista Machine
I installed xp on the new drive (drive G 
I reinstalled the setup on the vista drive
I get the boot option with windows vista and windows xp
Vista loads fine
XP shows the NTldr error
both drives are Serial ATA
I am not clear (need layman's terms) on how / what to edit
I see quotes on editing the bcedit file but I am not clear on what {legacy} means.
help!
Thanks
Noah |
Strike that! I got it to work by following your BCDedit instructions on Blind Faith - Thank you!
For others with 2 drives (trying to Install XP on exsisting Vista):
1. insert the new drive
2. boot your xp CDROM
3. Install xp on the unpartitioned new drive
4. reboot into XP
5. Install all drivers and updates (and reboot and rereboot as required)
6. Insert the Windows Vista DVD
7. Select Next and then REPAIR option
8. Now reboot into windows Vista (will happen automatically)
9. Follow Williams instructions (Thank you William again!!!):
"Configuration Data Store Editor" bcdedit.exe:
(Just as an explanation, the loader type for XP is an NT Loader, hence the use of ntldr)
-first open a command prompt with administrative privilages **(right-click and choose "run as administrator")
*Note the following 2 answers from bcdedit for each item are acceptable:
"The Operation Completed Successfully"
"The Specified Entry Already Exists"
Be sure to type each line carefully (replace C in the first line with the drive containing your Vista installation):
bcdedit –set {ntldr} device partition=C:
bcdedit –set {ntldr} path \ntldr
bcdedit –displayorder {ntldr} –addlast
bcdedit -set {ntldr} description "Microsoft Windows XP"
"
** to open this goto Start --> All Programs --> Accessories--> (right click) Command prompt (and select run as administartor)
Once this is done everything should work.... I said should....
Noah