New OS not booting
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:58 pm
I have been using BootitNG for some time now. I had until yesterday 4 OS's XP Pro, XP Pro 64 bit, Ubuntu and W7 Ultimate, all were running happily on demand but I decided to replace the XP 64 bit with W7 32 bit. I also upgrade to Bootit BM, no issues with that.
Initially I could not boot into W7 32 bit, it just went straight to XP. Did some searching and tweaking moved \boot and bootmgr to the partition with W732 on it and hey presto it worked. Then when trying to get into XP it booted straight to bootmgr screen with 2 versions of W7 and earlier OS on it. In trying to get rid of that I ended up only being able to access XP and W7 64bit. If I try to start W7 32 bit it boots into XP.
I have attempted to delete \boot and bootmgr from the XP partition following the KB article 'How to move the windows vista or windows 7 boot manager and restore windows xp NTLDR' but with no success as yet. I can successfully boot into W7 64 bit. I seem to remember having this problem when I installed W7 64 bit but I cannot remember how I resolved it.
Also when I try to access windows recovery mode from the xp boot manager all I get is an error message 'a disk read error occurred'
Any suggestions or hints to resume normal operations would be appreciated.
Initially I could not boot into W7 32 bit, it just went straight to XP. Did some searching and tweaking moved \boot and bootmgr to the partition with W732 on it and hey presto it worked. Then when trying to get into XP it booted straight to bootmgr screen with 2 versions of W7 and earlier OS on it. In trying to get rid of that I ended up only being able to access XP and W7 64bit. If I try to start W7 32 bit it boots into XP.
I have attempted to delete \boot and bootmgr from the XP partition following the KB article 'How to move the windows vista or windows 7 boot manager and restore windows xp NTLDR' but with no success as yet. I can successfully boot into W7 64 bit. I seem to remember having this problem when I installed W7 64 bit but I cannot remember how I resolved it.
Also when I try to access windows recovery mode from the xp boot manager all I get is an error message 'a disk read error occurred'
Any suggestions or hints to resume normal operations would be appreciated.