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    Restoring Dual-boot configuration

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by hehe299792458, Oct 28, 2007.

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    I recently did a restore of my Vista drive and soon discovered that it was created before I set up the dual boot reconfiguration with XP. However, I can't seem to use EasyBCD to set it up again as I keep getting the error "ntdlr not found". Is there a way to fix this? Thanks
     
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    Can you access Vista now? Or you can access neither system ?
    Boot your computer by XP cd , and then select　“Windows XP Recovery Console”　,you will get a cmd prompt ,enter your password of XP administrator ,and enter this two commads one by one:fixmbr.exe , fixboot.exe ,then reboot your computer ,Good luck!
     
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    I can boot into Vista fine.

    If I executed those commands, wouldn't they make Vista unaccessible?
     
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    yes,it is probable.
    But now ,your Vista cant work normally too...
    You must give up one ,but the vista system is not very easy to recover.
    If you have installed Vista ofter XP ' installing ,this problem would not appear !
     
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    I tried the two commands, but they didn't get rid of the error. I had to do a repair of Vista to boot back to a working OS again.
     
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    Oh,It is not easy...Now ,can not you boot either system ?
    The xp system should have been fixed ,but why...?When you entered the recovery console ,are not there two system (1 and 2) selectable ? which one did you select ?
     
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    I can boot into the Vista partition after restoring the startup manager with the Vista installation disc.

    When I entered the recovery console, I choose 2, which was the XP partition.
     
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    anybody? :(
     
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    copy NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM to your XP patition with XP CD in recovery console .

    Add me in ICQ ,and I'd like to be your friend !
     
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    I already tried that, but it didn't work. When I try to boot into XP again, it still gave me the ntdlr is not found error. However, I saw the ntdlr file in Vista under the XP partition.
     
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    Try to copy them to vista partition ,maybe it will work.
     
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    I tried that but it gave me a hal.dll is missing error.
     
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    lol,you access recovery console and see if the boot.ini file in XP partition has any errors.
     
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    If it still does not work, try this commands:
    expand x(your cd drive):\i386\driver.cab /f:halacpi.dll d:\windows\system32
    ren d:\windows\system32\halacpi.dll hal.dll.
     
    vistastar, Nov 1, 2007
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