Hi
I have a well established XP SP3 installation on an SSD. I bought a new SSD and installed Win 8.1Pro - that install set up a system partition at the front of the new SSD, before the Win8.1 partition. I then installed EasyBCD in order to get a multiboot menu.
When it starts the multiboot menu comes up fine. Default is to 8.1 which loads OK. If I select XP there is a message "<windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing" and it stops. I can use the bios boot menu (F12) to select the XP SSD and it boots fine. Seems as if it is looking for XP on the Win8 SSD. EasyBCD is installed in both XP and Win8.1 installs. (There is another XP VHD in another partition on the new SSD but I cant imagine it finding anything in that)
I hope this makes sense, feels as if it should be simple but I have tried various settings in EasyBCD without success.
Thanks in advance
I have a well established XP SP3 installation on an SSD. I bought a new SSD and installed Win 8.1Pro - that install set up a system partition at the front of the new SSD, before the Win8.1 partition. I then installed EasyBCD in order to get a multiboot menu.
When it starts the multiboot menu comes up fine. Default is to 8.1 which loads OK. If I select XP there is a message "<windows root>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing" and it stops. I can use the bios boot menu (F12) to select the XP SSD and it boots fine. Seems as if it is looking for XP on the Win8 SSD. EasyBCD is installed in both XP and Win8.1 installs. (There is another XP VHD in another partition on the new SSD but I cant imagine it finding anything in that)
I hope this makes sense, feels as if it should be simple but I have tried various settings in EasyBCD without success.
Thanks in advance