BOOTWIZ - XP Dual boot - cannot boot from original partition

Hi, I have already posted on this topic, but now I know that this event is due to the Acronis disk suite and I can be more precise about what is going on.

I installed Acronis Boot selector from the Disk Director Suite. I wanted a dual boot machine with each XP OS on a separate partition (and eventually a Linux partition later).

I partitioned my C drive into a C (the original partition with the OS) and a clean G partition.
I then installed XP pro on the new partition but upon rebooting the Acronis OS selector did not show up anymore (as it did before I partitioned the drive) and I could not boot again with the original C drive OS. Only with the new one.
The boot screen (the default windows one) gives me a choice between 2 versions of XP pro, one on G drive (the newest one) and one on the C drive (the older one).

When I try to boot with the C drive partition I get the following Message: System32\hal.dll missing

Now I believe that this file is missing because I found that the entire system files have been moved inside the bootwiz folder.

Question:

How do I restore the OS selector to show up at boot?

How do I restore the OS on my C drive?

Thank you, I always liked the reformatting capabilities of Acronis Suite, but this is the first time I use the boot selector and things are not going too well.

I read the fix in the FAQ regarding BOOTWIZ, but I doubt it will work with my setup.

 

You should be able to find something here to help you.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314477

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=97835

 

Hi, Thanks for the links. The tips should work, but I am concerned about the system folders. If The acronis OS selector program has put them there, the windows XP disk will not put them back the way they were.
I will wait to use any recovery strategy until someone familiar with the OS selector program can give me the go ahead.

Thank you for your kind help

 

I found the log from the BOOTWIZ and I tought of posting it here in case it could shed light on what my next step should be.

1) Should I try and install Acronis Os Selector on the new partition hoping it will read my other partition as well and restore it?
2) How do I make the OS selector appear at boot again otherwise? It worked well when I had one partition but since the new windows install it does not work anymore, and from the log I can tell it made some radical changes.

Here is the log:



Sat Aug 27 18:47:12 2005
Host os: loader
os_selector::Init begin
oss_match::Match begin
First start
Disk 114.50G installed
Disk 152.67G installed
Partition 219 need to detect as new
Partition 221 need to detect as new
oss_match::Match end
Version of file: 219:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntoskrnl.exe is 5.1
cfg_os::AddDetectedOses begin
Os 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (%l) renamed to %n Professional%l %l(%ll%l)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 219 for os: 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 221 for os: 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
File: 219:\ntldr added to os: 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English)
File: 219:\ntdetect.com added to os: 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English)
File: 219:\bootfont.bin added to os: 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English)
File: 219:\ntbootdd.sys added to os: 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English)
File: 219:\boot.ini added to os: 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English)
Dir: 219:\WINDOWS added to os: 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English)
Dir: 219:\Program Files added to os: 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English)
Dir: 219:\Documents and Settings added to os: 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English)
New os: 4241761300, ntxp on partition 219 added
Os 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English) setted default
Create file: 219:\BOOTWIZ\fcd42414\bootsect.sys
Result: ok
SectCommandValue. Section: boot loader, command: default, value: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS, file 219:\BOOTWIZ\fcd42414\boot.ini
KeepFile. Section: boot loader, command: timeout, keep: 1, file 219:\BOOTWIZ\fcd42414\boot.ini
KeepFile. Section: operating systems, command: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS, keep: 0, file 219:\BOOTWIZ\fcd42414\boot.ini
cfg_os::AddDetectedOses end
Added boot from A:
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 219 for os: 940228931, Boot from floppy A:
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 221 for os: 940228931, Boot from floppy A:
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
os_selector::Init end


Sat Aug 27 18:52:20 2005
Host os: loader
os_selector::Init begin
Checkfile 219:\ntldr changed
Os 3226543299, Windows XP Professional (%l) renamed to %n Professional%l %l(%ll%l)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 219 for os: 3226543299, Windows XP Professional (English)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 221 for os: 3226543299, Windows XP Professional (English)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
File: 219:\ntldr added to os: 3226543299, Windows XP Professional (English)
File: 219:\ntdetect.com added to os: 3226543299, Windows XP Professional (English)
File: 219:\bootfont.bin added to os: 3226543299, Windows XP Professional (English)
File: 219:\ntbootdd.sys added to os: 3226543299, Windows XP Professional (English)
File: 219:\boot.ini added to os: 3226543299, Windows XP Professional (English)
Dir: 219:\WINDOWS added to os: 3226543299, Windows XP Professional (English)
Os 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English) renamed to %n Professional%l %l(%ll%l)
os_selector::Init end


Sat Aug 27 18:53:09 2005
Host os: loader
os_selector::Init begin
Checkfile 219:\ntldr changed
os_selector::Init end


Sat Aug 27 18:54:54 2005
Host os: loader
os_selector::Init begin
Checkfile 219:\ntldr changed
os_selector::Init end


Sat Aug 27 19:10:44 2005
Host os: loader
os_selector::Init begin
Checkfile 219:\ntldr changed
os_selector::Init end


Sun Aug 28 13:25:18 2005
Host os: loader


Mon Aug 29 19:24:47 2005
Host os: Windows XP


Mon Aug 29 19:27:40 2005
Host os: loader


Sat Sep 10 11:08:03 2005
Host os: Windows XP
os_selector:iscard
os_selector:iscard
Os 4241761300, Windows XP Professional (English) renamed to Windows XP Pro (English)
os_selector:iscard


Mon Oct 10 17:03:38 2005
Host os: Windows XP
os_selector::Init begin
oss_match::Match begin
Partition 221 need to detect as new
oss_match::Match end
os_selector::Init end


Mon Oct 10 17:07:27 2005
Host os: Windows XP


Mon Oct 10 19:09:09 2005
Host os: Windows XP
Create file: 219:\BOOTWIZ\mbrfound.dat
Result: ok


Mon Oct 10 21:56:11 2005
Host os: loader


Mon Oct 10 22:01:58 2005
Host os: loader


Mon Oct 10 22:03:28 2005
Host os: Windows XP
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 221 for os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 219 for os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 221 for os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 219 for os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 221 for os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
os_selector::CopyOs begin
Unlinked partitions for os: 4186293438,
oss_os::UnlinkFile begin
File: 219:\ntldr
From os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
To os: 4186293438, Windows XP Pro (English) (2)
oss_os::UnlinkFile end
oss_os::UnlinkFile begin
File: 219:\ntdetect.com
From os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
To os: 4186293438, Windows XP Pro (English) (2)
oss_os::UnlinkFile end
oss_os::UnlinkFile begin
File: 219:\bootfont.bin
From os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
To os: 4186293438, Windows XP Pro (English) (2)
oss_os::UnlinkFile end
oss_os::UnlinkFile begin
File: 219:\ntbootdd.sys
From os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
To os: 4186293438, Windows XP Pro (English) (2)
oss_os::UnlinkFile end
oss_os::UnlinkFile begin
File: 219:\boot.ini
From os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
To os: 4186293438, Windows XP Pro (English) (2)
oss_os::UnlinkFile end
oss_os::CopyDir begin
Dir: 219:\WINDOWS
From os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
To os: 4186293438, Windows XP Pro (English) (2)
oss_os::CopyDir end
oss_os::CopyDir begin
Dir: 219:\Program Files
From os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
To os: 4186293438, Windows XP Pro (English) (2)
oss_os::CopyDir end
oss_os::CopyDir begin
Dir: 219:\Documents and Settings
From os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
To os: 4186293438, Windows XP Pro (English) (2)
oss_os::CopyDir end
os_selector::CopyOs end
os_selector::Commit begin
Os copying canceled
os_selector::Commit end
os_selector:iscard
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 219 for os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams begin
Set active partition 221 for os: 4241761300, Windows XP Pro (English)
oss_os::ChangePartitionParams end


Mon Oct 10 22:24:33 2005
Host os: loader


Mon Oct 10 22:24:55 2005
Host os: loader

 

Hello corrado444,

Thank you for your interest in Acronis Disk Management Software.

Please accept our apologies for the delay with the response.

Please note that system files of all installed Windows OSes are copied to the BOOTWIZ folder when you install OS Selector. These files are not erased from their old location.

In order to make the OS Selector screen appear when booting you should reactivate it. You can do it in the following ways:

1) Start Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 -> Tools -> OS Selector -> Tools -> Activate.
2) Boot from a Bootable media and perform the similar actions desctibed in 1)

If the above doesn't help please download Acronis Report utility available at http://www.acronis.com/files/support/AcronisReport.exe and run it, create a report and send it to us. This would provide us with detailed information on the hard disk partition structure.

Please collect the information requested above and contact us from our web-site: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/my/support/ . Please don't forget to send the link to this thread along with gathered information. This would allow us to investigate the problem and help you with the solution.

Thank you.
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Semyonov Vasily