I was attempting to load XP on a separate drive from my Vista machine. Booted in the XP CD, formatted and began the installation. After the setup files were copied to the other drive, the computer rebooted to finish the installation. Upon reboot, I got "Error loading operating system".
Reading further, I see that the mbr, boot sector and boot files were overwritten on my computer. I booted from my Vista DVD, navigated to the Boot directory, and issued "Bootsect.exe /NT60 All" at command prompt. Says it was successful. I reboot and still get the same error.
I also tried the automatic repair option. It didn't find any problems and didn't fix the error.
Booted again to command prompt from the Vista DVD. This time tried:
bootrec /FixMbr
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /RebuildBcd
When I issued last command, it said it was successful but # Windows installations found was 0.
Also did a chkdsk on my hard drive and came back clean. All files and directories are still present as well.
Rebooted and still getting the same error. What do I need to do?
Reading further, I see that the mbr, boot sector and boot files were overwritten on my computer. I booted from my Vista DVD, navigated to the Boot directory, and issued "Bootsect.exe /NT60 All" at command prompt. Says it was successful. I reboot and still get the same error.
I also tried the automatic repair option. It didn't find any problems and didn't fix the error.
Booted again to command prompt from the Vista DVD. This time tried:
bootrec /FixMbr
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /RebuildBcd
When I issued last command, it said it was successful but # Windows installations found was 0.
Also did a chkdsk on my hard drive and came back clean. All files and directories are still present as well.
Rebooted and still getting the same error. What do I need to do?