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re: XP/Vista dual boot XP doesn`t start. Ntldr error Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 6:19 pm Posted by Guillermo Villafañe (13 messages posted) Verify your Hdd's configuration...(hope can help).... On Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 11:15 am, mario79 wrote: >Partitioned HDD: volume 1: Vista Home Basic(C:)70Gb ; volume 2: Windows XP(D:) >30Gb > > >When I am booting up Vista Boot Manager presents with "Vista" and "Earlier Windows"(XP) >options but if I >select XP option I am geting an error message: "File: \ntldr The selected entry >couldn`t be loaded because the application is missing". >So, basically I am getting a ntldr missing message when I choose "Earlier Windows" >option and I can`t load XP only Vista. Selecting Vista works smoothly. > >Can sy give me a followable solution for this without using any 2nd 3rd party(VistaBootPro >and EasyBCD) programs?I am not keen of those,but if there is no other option obviosly >I will try. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] ME TOO re: XP/Vista dual boot XP dead Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 5:17 pm Posted by jabronne2 (4 messages posted) On my initial dual boot install of vista that same exact thing happened to me, except instead of "volume" i was only using "partition". WELL long story short I tried everything. and finally after rebuilding the boot.ini from vista seemingly fixed the problem with xp not booting. Until I logged off of xp and whammo the same darn problem. You basically have to fix it every time!...I ended up getting a second disk and using the bios boot menu. PROBLEM SOLVED, its ghetto but its better than rebuilding the bootldr and boot.ini every time you want to use xp!...some people around here are going to jump and say well i had no problem DUAL BOOTING THE BETA!!! Well this aint the beta and setup is WORSE. I personally beleive they nerfed it while trying out this new upgrade must already be installed scheeme. Cant prove it though. On Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 11:15 am, mario79 wrote: >Partitioned HDD: volume 1: Vista Home Basic(C:)70Gb ; volume 2: Windows XP(D:) >30Gb > > >When I am booting up Vista Boot Manager presents with "Vista" and "Earlier Windows"(XP) >options but if I >select XP option I am geting an error message: "File: \ntldr The selected entry >couldn`t be loaded because the application is missing". >So, basically I am getting a ntldr missing message when I choose "Earlier Windows" >option and I can`t load XP only Vista. Selecting Vista works smoothly. > >Can sy give me a followable solution for this without using any 2nd 3rd party(VistaBootPro >and EasyBCD) programs?I am not keen of those,but if there is no other option obviosly >I will try. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: ME TOO re: XP/Vista dual boot XP dead Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 2:55 pm Posted by vxnerveagent (2 messages posted) I am running Windows Vista Enterprize edition, along with a dual boot of Windows XP Professional. The solution to your problem lies with win xp... in order to dual boot the two you need to have xp installed first. I had this problem too because I RAID 0'ed a my first two hard drives (running vista on these) and planned on booting xp on my third drive. Anyways the 3rd drive was empty and I already had vista loaded on the Raid drive. So I thought that if I just loaded xp onto the empty 3rd drive everything would be ok... this wasnt the case however. Basically I was able to load xp and everything worked great, however it seemed as if vista completely disappeared, I tried everything to get it to boot again... the wierd part was that the two os's were on completely separate drives. Anyways... I guess the Vista boot manager needs to be loaded after the xp one otherwise only xp will load. So I put in my vista disk, repaired my vista load, and now vista worked again, but xp was AWOL... so this was my solution... What I suggest you do is load xp again, get it running, then install vista from within xp (start up xp put your vista disk in, and reinstall vista) you can still save all of your data within vista and the install wizard will allow you to create an image of your old data called windows.old. The downside to this all is that none of your installed applications will work within vista anymore, however you will be able to dual boot now. This is the only solution that has worked for me thus far, but because all of my data was backed up within the windows.old file, all i needed to do was reinstall my programs, drivers and what not, then import whatever application data was stored in my applications so that they were back to the same way they were... its alot of work but if you really need the dual boot between xp and vista I guess this would be worth it. On Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 5:17 pm, jabronne2 wrote: >On my initial dual boot install of vista that same exact thing happened to me, except >instead of "volume" i was only using "partition". WELL long story short I tried >everything. and finally after rebuilding the boot.ini from vista seemingly fixed >the problem with xp not booting. Until I logged off of xp and whammo the same darn >problem. You basically have to fix it every time!...I ended up getting a second >disk and using the bios boot menu. PROBLEM SOLVED, its ghetto but its better than >rebuilding the bootldr and boot.ini every time you want to use xp!...some people >around here are going to jump and say well i had no problem DUAL BOOTING THE BETA!!! >Well this aint the beta and setup is WORSE. I personally beleive they nerfed it >while trying out this new upgrade must already be installed scheeme. Cant prove >it though. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum