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years ago by mbcmbc Latest reply from crist2000 Topic Viewed 1931 times mbcmbc Posts: 1 This error loading operating system xp pro post has been reported. New system with Vista preinstalled. Shrank disk, partitioned, installed XP, restart: "Error loading operating system". Any workable suggestions other than reinstall Vista? g Reports: ·
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Posted 7 years ago Top Fernguy Posts: 251 This post has been reported. I am assuming you have a laptop. So you will need to slipstream the SATA drivers.Try googling "How To Slipstream SATA Drivers Into XP CD" their many tutorials available on the web. Reports: · Posted 7 years ago Top crist2000 Posts: virtualbox xp error loading operating system 1 This post has been reported. well I gave the same result. But I figured out how to resolve. 1. first, you have to restore Vista. Use bootrec commands (/fixmbr, /fixboot) using Vista restore console. 2. make changes to BCD configuration using Vista Boot utils or manaully by bcdedit commands 3. Copy 3 XP boot files (boot.ini, NTDETECT, ntldr) from Vista root (C:) to partition where XP resides. If you perform correctly all this steps after restart you will see boot menu where you can choose OS. If you choose XP, XP setup resumes. Reports: · Posted 7 years ago Top Topic Closed This topic has been closed to new replies. ABOUT About Us Contact Us Discussion Forum Advertising Privacy Policy GET ARTICLES BY EMAIL Enter your email address to get our daily newsletter. FOLLOW US Twitter Facebook Google+ RSS Feed Disclaimer: Most of the pages on the internet include affiliate links, including some on this site. Copyright © 2006-2016 How-To Geek, LLC All Rights Reserved
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SSO login Advanced Search Forum The Ubuntu Forum Community Ubuntu Official Flavours Support New to Ubuntu [SOLVED] Error loading operating system and other dual boot woes Having an Issue With Posting ? Do you want to help us debug the posting issues ? < is the place to report it, thanks ! Results 1 to 9 of 9 Thread: Error loading operating system and other http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/vista-xp-dual-boot-error-loading-operating-system dual boot woes Thread Tools Show Printable Version Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode January 17th, 2012 #1 oktorockto View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Spilled the Beans Join Date Jan 2012 Beans 13 Error loading operating system and other dual boot woes Hi all, well, firstly thanks to everyone in the Linux community for the collective effort over the years which has led to the point it is at now. https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1910651 I'm a fairly well experienced Windows user but have been sticking with XP over the years as I was bitten first by the lack of device support for Windows XP64 and then the horrors of Vista. I'm still running XP on my business computers as I do a lot of work in acoustics and audio but I am going to slowly change over to Ubuntu as I can and will probably leave a small windows XP partition for the few things I will have to keep it for. Anyway, I am more than impressed with Ubuntu - on to my problems. I have a system which originally had two drives - XP on an 80gb Maxtor IDE drive with a Samsung 500gb SATA drive for file storage. I started off by using the Ubunbtu download to install alongside windows but it seemed pretty slow (My windows XP install was a few years old, had gotten very slow and also had some spy-ware problems I could not fix) So I then decided to try installing Ubuntu on a spare Western Digital 500gb IDE drive I had. After doing this I realized I would have been better using the SATA drive with the extra transfer speed this should give it. So I have ended up with the windows XP partition still on the 80gb Maxtor drive (dev/sdb), the Ubuntu operating system on the 500gb Samsung drive (dev/sdc) with the 500gb WD drive as a s
and Vista What is the MBR? MBR stands for Master Boot Record and it’s the first sector of your hard drive that basically tells the BIOS where to look for the operating system on your computer. If, for any reason, the MBR http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/fix-mbr-xp-vista/ becomes damaged or corrupt, then the operating system will be unable to load. You will http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/8057-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-xp.html normally see error messages like: Error loading operating system Missing operating system Invalid partition table These messages are definitely not fun, especially if you are not familiar with computers. Most people would automatically assume their computers are dead! However, that’s not true. Being in IT myself, these errors are actually preferably to other types of Windows errors. Why? Well, it’s actually fairly easy error loading to fix the Master Boot Record in XP and Vista. All you have to do is load up the Recovery Console and run a simple command. All of your data, applications, settings, etc are still intact on the drive and once the MBR is fixed, the computer will load normally. So how can you repair your damaged MBR? Here are the steps to follow: 1. First, restart your computer with the Windows XP setup disk in the CD drive. error loading operating If you don’t have your original disk, borrow one or download a ISO image from a torrent site. 2. When prompted, boot from the CD drive by pressing any key. If Windows loads automatically, you will first have to enter the BIOS setup and change the order of the boot devices to start with the CD drive. 3. Once the setup loads, you will see the option to press R to repair a Windows installation. 4. Once the Recovery Console loads up, you will have to type in a number that corresponds to your Windows installation. This is normally just 1. Press Enter and then type in the Administrator password. 5. Now at the prompt, type in fixmbr. Your damaged MBR will now be replaced with a new master boot record and your computer should now be able to boot properly. Note that you may also want to run the fixboot command to repair the boot sector with a new one. Also, make sure you only use these commands on a system with one operating system installed. If you have more than one operating system installed, fixmbr and fixboot could mess up everything. Fix MBR in Vista In Vista, the procedure to fix the master boot record is a bit different. You have to start up Vista in the Recovery Environment and then run the bootrec command. Here’s how. 1. First, load up the
Acer, Asus or a custom build. We also provide an extensive Windows 7 tutorial section that covers a wide range of tips and tricks. Windows 7 Help Forums Windows 7 help and support Tutorials » User Name Remember Me? Password Advanced Search Show Tutorials Show Posts Advanced Search Go to Page... Windows 7: Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP Page 1 of 223 1 231151101 > Last » Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP How to Setup a Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP Published by Brink 28 Apr 2009 Published by Brink How to Setup a Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP Information This will show you how to install Windows 7 and XP to dual boot with when you already have either Windows 7 or XP installed first. Note With a dual boot installaton, you will have two operating systems (OS) installed. When you start the computer, you will have the choice to choose which OS you would like to start up to. This method is the easiest way of doing a dual boot with these two operating systems. Tip When dual booting with another OS (ex: Vista or XP), you may not always have that OS partition show up in Computer with a driver letter in Windows 7. If this happens, then you will just need to add a drive letter to the OS (ex: Vista or XP) partition in Windows 7 Disk Management for it to show up in Computer with a driver letter. Warning To stop XP from deleting your Windows 7 System Restore Points everytime XP is started, then see System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete to hide Windows 7 from XP. Windows 7 Minimum Hardware Requirements NOTE: For more information on this, see: Windows 7 system requirements 1 GHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor 1 GB RAM for 32-bit Windows 7 OR 2 GB RAM for 64-bit Windows 7 16 GB available disk space 32-bit Windows 7 OR 20 GB for 64-bit Windows 7 Support for DirectX 9 graphics with 128 MB memory (in order to enable Aero theme) DVD-R/W Drive Internet or phone access to activate Windows 7. Windows XP Minimum Hardware Requirements NOTE: For more informatio