Installed BING after-the-fact on Acer netbook - can't boot..
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:08 pm
Hi,
I have an Acer netbook, with a 160GB drive.
The original configuration had two partitions:
- Acer recovery partition (MBR-0)
- Windows XP (ACER-1)
I originally didn't install BING on the drive (I don't remember why now), but, I did use BING, booted from floppy, to change the partition size of the Acer/XP partition (ACER-1) to make it smaller, then I used BING to create two new partitions below that, so that the drive then had:
- Acer recovery partition (MBR-0)
- Windows XP (ACER-1)
- Win7 partition
- Data partition
Then, I installed Windows 7 in the Win7 partition, but it looks like what it actually did was install Windows 7 in the Win7 partition, and then add an item in the boot menu in the ACER-1 partition. At that point, I could boot into either XP or Win7, but I'd have to do so via the Windows boot menu.
Ok, so now I decided to install BING on the hard drive, so I resized the Data partition to make room for a BING partition, and then installed BING, so I have:
- Acer recovery partition (MBR-0)
- Windows XP (ACER-1)
- Win7 partition
- Data partition
- BING partition
Now, when I boot, I boot into BING, and found that there were two boot items:
MBR-0
Windows 7
If I choose to boot to the MBR-0 boot item, it boots into the Acer recovery (this is good, because I'd like to retain the ability to boot to the Acer recovery).
However, when I choose the Windows 7 boot item, I get an error saying no bootloader.
So then, in BING, I created a new boot item, "XP", with it booting to the ACER-1 partition, and the following partitions:
- Acer recovery partition (MBR-0)
- Windows XP (ACER-1)
- Win7 partition
- Data partition
Now, if I choose the "XP" boot item, I boot into the Windows boot menu, and get to choose to boot into either Windows 7 or XP ("Earlier version of Windows").
I guess that this is kind of ok. At least I can still boot into either the original Acer XP or into Windows 7. However, what I'd really like to do is to be able to "separate" the Windows XP and Windows 7 boots, so I don't have to boot through the Windows menu on the ACER-1 partition (I think that's what's happening, anyway).
In other words, I need to be able to make the Windows 7 partition bootable directly from BING.
Is it possible to do that? And, if so, how? Can I manually copy some of the files from the ACER-1 partition to the C:\ on the Windows 7 partition, like ntldr, etc. (what else)? And, if I can do that, what do I need to do in BCD Edit (on both the ACER-1 and WIndows 7 partititions)?
Thanks,
Jim
I have an Acer netbook, with a 160GB drive.
The original configuration had two partitions:
- Acer recovery partition (MBR-0)
- Windows XP (ACER-1)
I originally didn't install BING on the drive (I don't remember why now), but, I did use BING, booted from floppy, to change the partition size of the Acer/XP partition (ACER-1) to make it smaller, then I used BING to create two new partitions below that, so that the drive then had:
- Acer recovery partition (MBR-0)
- Windows XP (ACER-1)
- Win7 partition
- Data partition
Then, I installed Windows 7 in the Win7 partition, but it looks like what it actually did was install Windows 7 in the Win7 partition, and then add an item in the boot menu in the ACER-1 partition. At that point, I could boot into either XP or Win7, but I'd have to do so via the Windows boot menu.
Ok, so now I decided to install BING on the hard drive, so I resized the Data partition to make room for a BING partition, and then installed BING, so I have:
- Acer recovery partition (MBR-0)
- Windows XP (ACER-1)
- Win7 partition
- Data partition
- BING partition
Now, when I boot, I boot into BING, and found that there were two boot items:
MBR-0
Windows 7
If I choose to boot to the MBR-0 boot item, it boots into the Acer recovery (this is good, because I'd like to retain the ability to boot to the Acer recovery).
However, when I choose the Windows 7 boot item, I get an error saying no bootloader.
So then, in BING, I created a new boot item, "XP", with it booting to the ACER-1 partition, and the following partitions:
- Acer recovery partition (MBR-0)
- Windows XP (ACER-1)
- Win7 partition
- Data partition
Now, if I choose the "XP" boot item, I boot into the Windows boot menu, and get to choose to boot into either Windows 7 or XP ("Earlier version of Windows").
I guess that this is kind of ok. At least I can still boot into either the original Acer XP or into Windows 7. However, what I'd really like to do is to be able to "separate" the Windows XP and Windows 7 boots, so I don't have to boot through the Windows menu on the ACER-1 partition (I think that's what's happening, anyway).
In other words, I need to be able to make the Windows 7 partition bootable directly from BING.
Is it possible to do that? And, if so, how? Can I manually copy some of the files from the ACER-1 partition to the C:\ on the Windows 7 partition, like ntldr, etc. (what else)? And, if I can do that, what do I need to do in BCD Edit (on both the ACER-1 and WIndows 7 partititions)?
Thanks,
Jim