Dualboot Problem

[melandor0]

I've had Windows XP installed on my desktop for quite some time and I wanted to dualboot with Win7 for Dx10/11 support for some games. I have three HDD's, with XP installed on "1" and the new Win7 installed on "2", "3" is purely for mass data storage. I decided to install Win7 on 2 without formatting the drive and almost everything went as well as one could hope.

However, Win7 changed the name of the drives (all three are SATA btw) so that now 2 is C: and 1 is D: and XP won't start at all. I tried using EasyBCD to add XP to the bootloader, but when I try to start XP it gives me the "NTLDR missing" error. I'm wondering if the problem lies within Win7 changing the drive letters for me (I had no fingers in that happening, I'm sure.) and XP refusing to boot from anything but C:

So I'm asking if there's another solution or how I should go about changing the drive letters without messing everything up even more.

[intelguy]

Rather than changing drive letters it may be better to just restore NTLDR.

The easiest solution is to boot from a Windows XP CD, and start the Recovery Console. Copy NTLDR from the CD's I386 folder to the D: drive. Exit the Recovery Console.

The method is very straightforward, so try to borrow an XP CD if you don't have one.