dual boot mgr gone, need to boot from 2nd hard drive

[blanktheman]

I had a dual boot system on my 2 hard drives, i had windows xp pro sp3 on the first drive and windows 7 32 sp1 bit on the 2nd hard drive. The 1st hard drive gave problems and i was forced to reinstall windows so i lost the dual boot mgr. What files do i need to copy to the 2nd hard drive so i can boot from it? It keeps asking for ntldr although it's a windows 7 32 bit, not xp. It's a dual core pc with 1 gig ram. I can't seem to find any info on the internet, the closest i found was editing the bcd or bootcfg I think it's called. Anyone know what to do? Thank you.

[blanktheman]

Does noone have an answer or idea? 

 

[Geek-9pm]

Yes. When you have a complex system it is imperative you have a spur backup and recovery system. Dual boot and triple boot systems should have image backups as well as file backups.
Window2s 7 should be able to recovery the b boot manager.
If not, you have to do a repair install, which may un-register some programs.

[jason2074]

This article might help you

[Geek-9pm]

If the link given by jason2074 does not help, here is another reference:
http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/dual-boot-windows-7-xp-vista.htm
You don't have to buy the product, It is free for personal use.
On my desktop I have XP, Win7, Win 8.1 and the Windows preview..I used Easeus to help layout the partition structure.  It is on one  500 GB drive.

[blanktheman]

This article might help you

Thanks a lot Jason, it looks like it will. I'll read it later and try sort it out. Thanx so much.

And thank you Geek, i never thought of a repair install, i can try that as well.