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Hi,
I had Windows XP and Windows 7 dual booting, with XP installed first. Both were booting off the same hard drive but in their own partitions.
All was fine until I tried to rename the bootloader entry for XP which was showing as 'Earlier version of Windows' to 'XP'. I used EasyBCD to do this.
When I rebooted it stopped at an error screen and could not find the bootloader which has obviously been corrupted.
I tried the repair option booting from the Win 7 dvd but to no avail. I can repair the XP install with a Repair install but this then wipes out the Win 7 bootloader.
Both installs are still there but I need to somehow reinstall the Win 7 bootloader so that it picks up the XP install as well.
Any ideas? I think part of the problem is the hidden partition where Win 7 puts its boot files.
I had Windows XP and Windows 7 dual booting, with XP installed first. Both were booting off the same hard drive but in their own partitions.
All was fine until I tried to rename the bootloader entry for XP which was showing as 'Earlier version of Windows' to 'XP'. I used EasyBCD to do this.
When I rebooted it stopped at an error screen and could not find the bootloader which has obviously been corrupted.
I tried the repair option booting from the Win 7 dvd but to no avail. I can repair the XP install with a Repair install but this then wipes out the Win 7 bootloader.
Both installs are still there but I need to somehow reinstall the Win 7 bootloader so that it picks up the XP install as well.
Any ideas? I think part of the problem is the hidden partition where Win 7 puts its boot files.