EasyBCD

[webb]

been using easyBCD to multi boot vista home premium master, plus XP home premium on a separate hard drive all worked well, until i tried to install win XP professional on a separate partition on the win XP drive

now when i start PC i get a 0xc0000098 status warning and wont boot into windows it also says it maybe a recent hardware or software change and to insert windows CD fix Language settings ...... this has know effect just get the same message .... see below, also says windows boot configuration data file does not contain a valid OS entry

but the above is only true if i have the hard drive containing vista plugged in ... if unplug vista, XP would boot ? deleted XP professional drive with partition magic but still got same prob

why did installing on one hard drive effect the other ?

hope i dont have to reinstall vista just got it wright all updates and drivers

Opps forgot to say any help advise welcome Webb

 

[SiriusB]

Windows puts the boot records on the primary HDD [usually the one set to boot in BIOS]. Sounds like the setup put the bootloader in the wrong place.

 

[CaptainCrash]

Yes, it sounds like installing XP Pro on the second HDD stomped over the Vista bootloader on the primary HDD, so EasyBCD (which still exists in your Vista installation) has been cut adrift.

You'll probably need to reinstall the Vista bootloader before you can do anything else, this should help.

 

[webb]

Windows puts the boot records on the primary HDD [usually the one set to boot in BIOS]. Sounds like the setup put the bootloader in the wrong place.

dam what if it put it on the deleted XP professional partition ? would that be possible? ...... and how would i resolve if deleted?

cant i make a new boot record ? "BCD" seems only to do this for windows 7 ??? from what i can gather

 

[webb]

captaincrash we must have posted at same time will try your suggestion let u know how i go on

thanks Webb

 

[webb]

CaptainCrash saves the day ever thing back up and running!!!!! after a bit of messing around with settings on BCD ....... think this time ill disconnect vista drive to add XP pro to XP drive ...... or maybe even put on separate drive with only that drive connected (not a hologram version but legal for me to use) could this be why i had problems ?

thanks again for any help advise i received here Webb

 

[CaptainCrash]

CaptainCrash saves the day ever thing back up and running!!!!!

You're welcome.

If you're installing multiple Windows OSes, you should normally do it in the order oldest => newest, as the bootloader is overwritten with each successive installation, and although the Vista bootloader will recognise an XP installation, the XP bootloader hasn't a clue what a Vista is or what it's supposed to do with it.

EasyBCD should be able to sort things out, but it was running from within Vista in your case, and the XP bootloader couldn't boot Vista itself, hence your problem.

think this time ill disconnect vista drive to add XP pro to XP drive ...... or maybe even put on separate drive with only that drive connected (not a hologram version but legal for me to use) could this be why i had problems ?

That would be a good idea, as the bootloader is normally written to the first physical HDD found by the setup program. You could then reconnect the Vista drive as the first drive, boot it, run EasyBCD and set up your multibooting arrangements however you want.

 

[webb]

If you're installing multiple Windows OSes, you should normally do it in the order oldest => newest, as the bootloader is overwritten with each successive installation

Is my first time with multiple boots in the past just normally lost everything and nearly nothing worked with my old programs ...... hopefully the transition wont be so harsh this time for my desktop