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Solve : XP and Vista dual-boot.......winload.exe error??

Answer» <html><body><p>I have 2 hard drives. A 20gb <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/one-241053" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ONE">ONE</a> (C:) with XP pro installed and a 160gb one split into 2 partitions. The 1st partition just contains data (F:) and the 2nd partiiton (V:) I installed vista on. <br/><br/>I installed vista from within XP by running the vista iso file (downloaded from msdn) using daemon tools (I don't have a DVD writer YET). The install was a clean install onto the V: drive and seemed to install fine. <br/><br/>On the 1st reboot, it continued the setup and installed all files and features. On the 2nd reboot though, I got a winload.exe error when it was trying to boot from vista. The boot list comes up fine, with xp and vista present. <br/><br/><strong>File: \Windows\system32\winload.exe<br/><br/>Status: 0xc000000e<br/><br/>Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.</strong><br/><br/>Having looked at other forums, I haven't been able to find a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/solution-25781" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SOLUTION">SOLUTION</a>, although it seems to be something with the vista boot file, bcdedit. Does anyone have a possible solution?<br/><br/>ThanksWhat release of Vista is this ? ?<br/><br/>I've never used daemon tools to install an OS is there a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/aeuroereason-239555" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REASON">REASON</a> you had to use this method ? ?<br/><br/>And does this mean that V: is a virtual drive ? ?<br/>Not sure how to find out what version of the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/final-461168" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about FINAL">FINAL</a> release this is.<br/><br/>I used daemon tools because I don't yet have a DVD writer to burn the iso file on. The V: drive is a partition I created from the second hard drive.<br/><br/>The bcedit file looks as follow. Does anything seem wrong here?<br/><br/><br/><strong>Windows Boot Manager<br/>--------------------<br/>identifier {bootmgr}<br/>device partition=C:<br/>description Windows Boot Manager<br/>locale en-US<br/>inherit {globalsettings}<br/>default {default}<br/>displayorder {ntldr}<br/> {default}<br/> {cbd971bf-b7b8-4885-951a-fa03044f5d71}<br/>toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}<br/>timeout 3<br/><br/>Windows Legacy OS Loader<br/>------------------------<br/>identifier {ntldr}<br/>device partition=C:<br/>path \ntldr<br/>description Earlier Version of Windows<br/><br/>Windows Boot Loader<br/>-------------------<br/>identifier {default}<br/>device partition=V:<br/>path \Windows\system32\winload.exe<br/>description Microsoft Windows Vista<br/>locale en-US<br/>inherit {bootloadersettings}<br/>osdevice partition=V:<br/>systemroot \Windows<br/>resumeobject {7189a801-1bd1-11dc-8e9e-9a302bfd9349}<br/>nx OptIn<br/>detecthal Yes<br/><br/>Windows Setup<br/>-------------<br/>identifier {cbd971bf-b7b8-4885-951a-fa03044f5d71}<br/>device partition=C:<br/>path \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32\winload.exe<br/>description Windows Setup Rollback<br/>locale en-US<br/>inherit {bootloadersettings}<br/>osdevice partition=C:<br/>systemroot \$WINDOWS.~BT\Windows<br/>resumeobject {1cd2d955-1bd0-11dc-8e9e-806e6f6e6963}<br/>nx OptOut<br/>detecthal Yes<br/>winpe Yes</strong>I think this could possibly be the reason why vista isn't booting up, but I'm not sure how to fix it.<br/><br/>When I boot up using the XP CD, and go to the recovery console, I have 2 windows options. The C: drive (which has XP) and strangely, E: drive for vista yet I installed it on the V: drive. Plus my E: drive is my CD/RW drive which has no CD inside it. When I load into XP normally, the vista files are all on the V: drive.<br/><br/>Any ideas?Personally whenever i setup a dual-boot machine i have had the most success with the simple approach.<br/>The less changing of drive letters the better.<br/>For yours it would be obviously C: drive XP<br/>Then 2nd HDD<br/>D: and E:<br/>CDRom F:<br/>DVD or other if <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/needed-1112853" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about NEEDED">NEEDED</a> G:<br/><br/>With XP installed to C: and the drive letters set as above re-install Vista to the first partition of the 2nd physical drive which would be D:<br/><br/>This should keep them both happy and playing nice side by side...and since the BIOS is ID'ing them in the same order there's less that can confuse Windows here.<br/><br/>This is how i have my XP machine set up and i have no boot issues...Vista issues yes, but no boot problems.<br/><br/>Another tool you can add to your arsenal:<br/><br/><a href="http://www.vistabootpro.org/">Vista Boot Pro.</a>OK, I'll give that a go.<br/><br/>ThanksTry reinstallng vista. And whatever you do, dont install vista on a drive and then install XP or older on same drive becuase vista needs the master boot file to boot with out any problems.</p></body></html>


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