Hi, not sure if this is the right spot for this but it's the best one I found.
I had a dual boot with Windows 7 and Windows XP, installed in that order. Had them working fine until about a week or two ago. 7 was installed on a 1TB Western Digital Black Caviar and XP was on a seperate Seagate drive. Upon startup I got an error saying one of the hard drives failed SMART testing, turned out it was the caviar with too many reallocated sectors. So I started backing everything up while I still could (slow as a turtle too lol) which was copy all the media files (pictures, movies, etc) from the second partition and took an image of drive c with Windows 7 using Acronis True Image Western Digital Edition. Put in an advance RMA for a new drive and waited for it to arrive.
Now I've got the drive and am restoring everything to the new one. Stored files are perfectly in tact and the Windows 7 image restored perfectly fine too. Only problem is with the boot files. When I try to boot into XP it tells me windows failed to start. File: \NTLDR could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt. Anyone have suggestions on how I can get into XP again?
Initially XP wasn't recognized at all but I tried using EasyBCD to add it in which gave me the dual boot screen and the error above when trying XP.
*edit* was thinking, what are the odds I could use recovery console to restore the XP install and use EasyBCD from there to add XP to the boot files? Then restore the Vista boot loader (worked last time with 7 so I'm guessing it'll work now too) and hope everything boots up ok?

I had a dual boot with Windows 7 and Windows XP, installed in that order. Had them working fine until about a week or two ago. 7 was installed on a 1TB Western Digital Black Caviar and XP was on a seperate Seagate drive. Upon startup I got an error saying one of the hard drives failed SMART testing, turned out it was the caviar with too many reallocated sectors. So I started backing everything up while I still could (slow as a turtle too lol) which was copy all the media files (pictures, movies, etc) from the second partition and took an image of drive c with Windows 7 using Acronis True Image Western Digital Edition. Put in an advance RMA for a new drive and waited for it to arrive.
Now I've got the drive and am restoring everything to the new one. Stored files are perfectly in tact and the Windows 7 image restored perfectly fine too. Only problem is with the boot files. When I try to boot into XP it tells me windows failed to start. File: \NTLDR could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt. Anyone have suggestions on how I can get into XP again?
Initially XP wasn't recognized at all but I tried using EasyBCD to add it in which gave me the dual boot screen and the error above when trying XP.
*edit* was thinking, what are the odds I could use recovery console to restore the XP install and use EasyBCD from there to add XP to the boot files? Then restore the Vista boot loader (worked last time with 7 so I'm guessing it'll work now too) and hope everything boots up ok?