Dual Boot W7 (Internal Sata Hdd) W2008 (E-Sata Hdd)

[coyo]

Hi,

 

For a project I need to have W2008 running for a while, preferably on a physical machine. So I'm exploring this route before going virtual.

This is the setup:

HP 8530w laptop

200Gb internal sata HDD

8 Gb RAM

External sata HDD

Windows 7 is installed on the internal HDD.

I'd like to install w2008 on the external HDD.

 

The e-sata drive is recognized in w7, and I set the boot order in the BIOS as CD/DVD-esata-internal HD.

I boot from the w2008 DVD and select disk2partition1 as the destination. The install runs until first reboot.

Then the error appears: /windows/system32/winload.exe is either corrupted or missing.

BCDEDIT output:

Windows Boot Manager

--------------------

identifier {bootmgr}

device partition=C:

description Windows Boot Manager

locale en-US

inherit {globalsettings}

default {current}

resumeobject {1dcb6f56-966f-11de-b54a-ed2d69a068ba}

displayorder {165a98c1-dc6d-11de-975c-a5780e7e3fcb}

{current}

toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}

timeout 6

 

Windows Boot Loader

-------------------

identifier {165a98c1-dc6d-11de-975c-a5780e7e3fcb}

device partition=D:

path \Windows\system32\winload.exe

description Microsoft Windows Server 2008

locale en-US

inherit {bootloadersettings}

bootdebug Yes

osdevice partition=D:

systemroot \Windows

resumeobject {165a98c2-dc6d-11de-975c-a5780e7e3fcb}

nx OptOut

pae ForceDisable

detecthal Yes

sos Yes

debug No

 

Windows Boot Loader

-------------------

identifier {current}

device partition=C:

path \Windows\system32\winload.exe

description Windows 7

locale en-US

inherit {bootloadersettings}

recoverysequence {1dcb6f58-966f-11de-b54a-ed2d69a068ba}

recoveryenabled Yes

osdevice partition=C:

systemroot \Windows

resumeobject {1dcb6f56-966f-11de-b54a-ed2d69a068ba}

nx OptIn

 

 

I tried different drive letters for the w2008 partition, to no avail, the error is still the same.

 

Can this be done at all? Should I start using an 3rd party bootmanager? Did I make a mistake somewhere?

 

Many thanks,

Coyo

[AWS]

Try installing windows 2008 first before Winodws 7.