EasyBCD

webb · 19 Jan 2011 at 23:00

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

webb · 19 Jan 2011 at 23:24

SiriusB said:
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 · 19 Jan 2011 at 23:27

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

thanks Webb

webb · 20 Jan 2011 at 17:15

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

webb · 20 Jan 2011 at 18:56

CaptainCrash said:
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