Using Ghost 2003 to create an image of a dual-boot system. Here's the setup:
Windows XP (32 bit) installed on a RAID 0 set of two 160 GB disks, installed first, this is the boot disk
Windows 7 (64 bit) installed on a Vertex 2 SSD, installed after Windows XP
Blank 750 GB disk for storage
I installed Windows XP, then I installed Windows 7, and everything worked fine. I'd get a boot menu when I started the computer and could boot into WinXP or Win7 with no problems. So I used Ghost 2003 (boot disk) to image the XP drive. I then turn around and immediately do a restore on the XP drive just to make sure it works, and I no longer can get into Windows XP. I still get the boot menu, and I can boot into Win7, but I cannot boot into WinXP. I get "ntldr missing" error message. I tried to use the recovery console with the WinXP install CD and did fixmbr and fixboot, but then I lose the boot menu and now I can't get into Win7 and the system goes straight into Windows XP with no boot menu.
Using Ghost 2003 to create an image of a dual-boot system. Here's the setup:
Windows XP (32 bit) installed on a RAID 0 set of two 160 GB disks, installed first, this is the boot disk
Windows 7 (64 bit) installed on a Vertex 2 SSD, installed after Windows XP
Blank 750 GB disk for storage
I installed Windows XP, then I installed Windows 7, and everything worked fine. I'd get a boot menu when I started the computer and could boot into WinXP or Win7 with no problems. So I used Ghost 2003 (boot disk) to image the XP drive. I then turn around and immediately do a restore on the XP drive just to make sure it works, and I no longer can get into Windows XP. I still get the boot menu, and I can boot into Win7, but I cannot boot into WinXP. I get "ntldr missing" error message. I tried to use the recovery console with the WinXP install CD and did fixmbr and fixboot, but then I lose the boot menu and now I can't get into Win7 and the system goes straight into Windows XP with no boot menu.
The boot menu is still there. I can select Windows 7, after the restore, and boot to that OS no problem. But for whatever reason I cannot get WinXP to work. It's still a selection in the boot menu, but after I select it and hit 'Enter' I get the error message that \ntldr is missing or corrupt, error 0xc000000e.
Ntldr is never really missing, at least I never seen that. It's usually caused by the boot.ini pointing to the wrong location or the partitions have changed in either positions or number of partitions\disks.
XP has a different bootsector than vista and 7, the XP boot sector will only boot ntldr (XP)
The Vista/7 bootsector normally boots to winload.exe but is backwards compatible to be able to boot XP.
If you can't boot windows 7 and can only boot XP (You did a XP startup repair), then you need to restore the windows 7 boot sector to get the menu back and be able to boot both.
You can do a startup repair from the windows 7 install disk or startup repair disk, or you can use EasyBCD.
If you can only boot windows 7 and not XP, check to make sure the drive and partition listed in the boot.ini is still accurate.
Thank you for your kind responses. I will explain again.
After a restore from Ghost 2003, I still get the boot menu. The disk that Windows XP installed on it is the boot disk, and that's where boot.ini, bootmgr, and all the other boot files are. I can select, from the boot menu, Windows 7 and go to that OS with no problems. (That OS resides on another wholly separate disk which is not the boot disk.) Windows XP, however, gives me an error after I select it from the boot menu that \ntldr is missing.
My confusion is that Ghost is changing something. I imaged the disk, and immediately restored that image to test it, and I can no longer get into Windows XP. I made no changes. I didn't even reboot the computer. It's strange and confusing. What's changing? Why can the disk no longer boot into WinXP?
btw... i have build 2003.789.... i am still looking for somebody helping me to get build 2003.793 German Version or direct download link.... because i cant update it with the Live Updater (thank you WIN 7) a private message would be great