judethedude
Prominent Member
I have downloaded Windows XP Pro 64bit and, after finally making an ISO DVD disk, managed to install it onto a new hard drive in my system. However, I still had another drive in my system containing Windows XP Pro 32bit.
After installing Win7, I now see a dual boot screen on start-up asking which OS I want to boot from. No problem there.
However, this morning I changed the Win7 drive to the main boot drive and got the message NTLDR missing pre ALT+CTRL+DEL to restart. I therefore changed the XP hard drive back to the first boot drive and everything was OK.
I then removed the Win XP drive from my system completely and again got the "missing NTLDR" message ! Basically, I cannot boot directly from the Win7 drive and must keep the Win XP in my system as the main boot drive in order for it to work.
Surely this cannot be right !
Has anyone managed a clean install without another copy of Windows in their system ?
After installing Win7, I now see a dual boot screen on start-up asking which OS I want to boot from. No problem there.
However, this morning I changed the Win7 drive to the main boot drive and got the message NTLDR missing pre ALT+CTRL+DEL to restart. I therefore changed the XP hard drive back to the first boot drive and everything was OK.
I then removed the Win XP drive from my system completely and again got the "missing NTLDR" message ! Basically, I cannot boot directly from the Win7 drive and must keep the Win XP in my system as the main boot drive in order for it to work.
Surely this cannot be right !
Has anyone managed a clean install without another copy of Windows in their system ?