Aksarben
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- Location
- Fennville, MI
Dual boot. XP Pro (SP3) on Drive 0 as primary, extended D: both of which are FAT32. Then I made a partition on the drive 0 and assigned it drive letter F: and named it Windows 8.1PRO. Bought a DVD of Windows 8.1 pro and installed it in that partition. It created a new folder in my C: drive (XP_C) called BOOT. In it resides the BCD and other necessary files. Dual boots into either XP or Windows 8.1 I also have 2 other physical had drives, both 1Tb like the drive 0 and drive 1 is E: and drive 2 is G:
Wife has identical desktop I built and is configured same way.
Recently I tried to edit the BCD file with a program called BCD Edit. I created a restore point and when in the program I backed up the BCD file before proceeding. After I edited the BCD from Earlier Windows operating system, to just "Windows XP" I tried it out and the menu is as I edited, but not in the 8.1 blue graphical style I thought would happen, but more the command prompt, black screen with white lettering. I booted back into 8.1 pro and all was well. I went back into the program and restored the original BCD file then uninstalled BCD Edit program. I found out around this time that even though I can access drives G: E: and even drive D: which is the extended logical of drive 0, I could not look at drive F:, which I had previous changed the lettering to some time back that held the XP partition.
I now get an error when I try to access it that say "Access Denied" and if i click "continue". There is a continue button, which I pressed, but that next screen tells me I have to configure security settings. Right click on that partition (F and there is no security, even in the advanced tab.
I go to my wife's computer, pull up 'My Computer' (renamed from This PC ) and get a list of her drives and partitions. I can go to her partition that has Windows XP on it, but not on mine now. Any ideas to try?
Wife has identical desktop I built and is configured same way.
Recently I tried to edit the BCD file with a program called BCD Edit. I created a restore point and when in the program I backed up the BCD file before proceeding. After I edited the BCD from Earlier Windows operating system, to just "Windows XP" I tried it out and the menu is as I edited, but not in the 8.1 blue graphical style I thought would happen, but more the command prompt, black screen with white lettering. I booted back into 8.1 pro and all was well. I went back into the program and restored the original BCD file then uninstalled BCD Edit program. I found out around this time that even though I can access drives G: E: and even drive D: which is the extended logical of drive 0, I could not look at drive F:, which I had previous changed the lettering to some time back that held the XP partition.
I now get an error when I try to access it that say "Access Denied" and if i click "continue". There is a continue button, which I pressed, but that next screen tells me I have to configure security settings. Right click on that partition (F and there is no security, even in the advanced tab.
I go to my wife's computer, pull up 'My Computer' (renamed from This PC ) and get a list of her drives and partitions. I can go to her partition that has Windows XP on it, but not on mine now. Any ideas to try?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows XP and 8.1
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Asus MB home built
- CPU
- AMD AM3+
- Motherboard
- Asus
- Memory
- 12GB
- Hard Drives
- 3 ea Western Digital 1 Tb hard drives.
Drive 0 = 3 partitions C: D: F:
Drive 1 = 1 partition
Drive 2 = 1 partition
- Internet Speed
- DSL sometimes slow as mollasses in Jan.
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- ESET