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Dual booting from separate hard drives?

  • 21-07-2007 9:23pm
    #1
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,032 ✭✭✭


    Despite numerous re-installs and trying various other things I have not been able to set up a working dual boot with Vista on one hard drive and XP on the other. I have Vista on my primary hard drive, a 74GB raptor and XP is on an old 20GB ide hard drive. I used the program easybcd to set up the boot options, Vista boots fine but when I select XP I get an error saying:

    "Windows can not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
    Could not read from the selected book dsik, check boot path and disk hardware."

    I think the problem is with XP thinking its installed to the C: drive when in fact its the I: drive?
    This problem is driving me mad so any ideas with this would be greatly appreciated :D


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  • #2
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,408 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    youcancallme>al wrote:
    Despite numerous re-installs and trying various other things I have not been able to set up a working dual boot with Vista on one hard drive and XP on the other. I have Vista on my primary hard drive, a 74GB raptor and XP is on an old 20GB ide hard drive. I used the program easybcd to set up the boot options, Vista boots fine but when I select XP I get an error saying:

    "Windows can not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
    Could not read from the selected book dsik, check boot path and disk hardware."

    I think the problem is with XP thinking its installed to the C: drive when in fact its the I: drive?
    This problem is driving me mad so any ideas with this would be greatly appreciated :D

    I'm dual booting both Windows XP Pro & Vista flawlessly on two systems, one has only got one hard drive but the other has two hard drives(one with XP & one with Vista) I set both of these up myself & the only difference I can see between my setup & yours is that in both my cases Windows XP was the first operating system to be installed followed by Vista.
    I wonder if the order they're installed has anything to do with it?

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • #3
    alanjgrace
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    this should help


  • #4
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,032 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    gadgetman496 wrote:
    I wonder if the order they're installed has anything to do with it?

    Yea I think this might be something to do with it. Both operating systems think they are installed to the C: drive. I reckon if I re-install vista it might do the trick.


  • #5
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    I'd definitely try reinstalling Vista.
    from experience, it's always best to install the older OS first then the newer. I had no issues with my XP/Vista dual boot when doing it this way...


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Make sure the boot.ini settings point to the SECOND drive.
    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\windows="Windows XP"


    multi(W)disk(X)rdisk(Y)partition(Z) form of the ARC pathname.

    The W, X, Y, and Z parameters have the following meaning:
    W is the ordinal number of the controller, and should always be 0.

    X is not used for multi(), and is always 0.

    Y is the ordinal for the disk on the controller, and is always 0 or 1 for disks connected to the primary controller. The range is 0 through 3 for disks on a dual-channel EIDE controller.

    Z is the partition number. All partitions receive a number except for type 5 (Extended) and type 0 (unused) partitions. These numbers start at 1, as opposed to all other entries, which start with 0.

    Theoretically, the multi() syntax could be used to start Windows NT from any disk on the computer.


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