Dual boot files?

PiKo said:

Do not think so, but:
do you have your black selection screen?
can you boot from that into both OS?
What is the problem now?

Black screen, yes.
Tried booting into Win XP and ended up with errors in drive. Shut down and booted into Windows 10. It did a chkdsk as well, fixed errors, then restarted and booted into the menu selection, and then went to Window 10 (default)

I'm in Windows 10 now. Things are working. I used EaseUS Partition Manager to look at the disc and do a file check. It uses Windows file checker and found no issues any any of my drives or partitions.

Little apprehensive to try to boot into XP again. I could use the EaseUS Partition Manger to fix the boot loader for Windows XP, but then it may just boot, or try to boot, straight into Windows XP.

Use Easy BCD to fix the XP boot loader.

Rebooted the desktop just now. Opted for Windows XP when the 2 choices popped up. Computer shut down to BIOS and started up again, as usual. Saw Windows XP logo, then a bit of a wait and saw Windows XP small center icon, and it did put the OS info in the bottom right screen with Windows XP SP3 and version number, etc like I have seen before.
Then it went back to the Windows XP blue screen small logo and just sits there and you seen an occasional flicker.

Could it be that XP does not quite know how to work with the new Crucial SSD hard drive? It seems to be able to boot into XP to just a certain point. This is a new Crucial 1TB SSD hard drive in place of a SATA 1 TB Hard drive (mechanical).

If it is a driver issue I might be able to put the correct SSD Driver into the XP drivers folder, but not sure I would know what driver it would need.

So, not solved yet.

Thanks @PiKo that got me looking at what you said. I found this link: How To Install Windows XP On An SSD | Daves Computer Tips that talks about installing XP on an SSD and it appears that XP does not work well with GPT, but only MBR. That may be an issue as the SSD is partitioned into 3 basic partitions, C which is Window 10, another partition named D: and F: which hold Windows XP SP3.
E: is a whole different SATA hard drive.

It is almost like it tries to book into XP but only gets so far before a lot of "hanging" takes place.
I don't want to wipe the F: Windows XP partition clean to try to install XP all over again, since I do have installed programs in there that are specific to XP.

Maybe it would Boot with the old SATA Hard drive into XP, but not sure of what drivers or other I would need to do to fix the issue of booting into XP with the necessary drivers. Copying over some drivers from Windows10 to XP did not work... such as just a few that end with .sys into the driver folder.

spunk said:

Use Easy BCD to fix the XP boot loader.

EasyBCD for Windows - Download it from Uptodown for free

spunk said:

EasyBCD for Windows - Download it from Uptodown for free

Highly recommended, at least for Windows-only multiboot. No experience with "mixed marriage" Windows and Linux multiboot. (Comments welcome.)

And the price is certainly right.

x509 said:

Highly recommended, at least for Windows-only multiboot. No experience with "mixed marriage" Windows and Linux multiboot. (Comments welcome.)

And the price is certainly right.

Yes, I have the latest EasyBCD Might be an issue with XP and the SSD drive for booting.,, maybe?

Go over the steps. Start over if necessary Installing XP as a second OS