Dual boot no longer working?

liamcrane

liamcrane

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Hi guys having a strange problem booting into windows 7 now on my dual boot. I have xp on 1 hd and win 7 on another and everytime i booted up i had my boot option of xp and 7 with the primary being 7, i was having a problem with my xp os so i decided to reinstall it again on the hd but now i dont get no boot option and it boots only into xp, i have gone into the bios and checked out the boot order and there is only 1 hd there to select, does this mean i will have to reinstall windows 7 now to be able to boot into it and get my boot loader back?

hope you can help

many thanks
 
thanks for the info mate, i inserted the win 7 cd and went to repair then as you said opened the cmd, i typed Bootrec.exe it then gave me a list of commands i could use, i then typed /FixBoot but it keeps coming up not reconized as an internal or external command any ideas to why this is? if it helps the command line is X:/sources>

thanks again
 
lol thats what i was doing wrong kept typing them seperatly, when i did it came up operation succesfull but when i restarted it, it booted straight into xp again
 
thanks again mate i just tried bootrec /fixmbr then bootrec /fixboot both came up as succsesfull but still booted into xp, so i decided to try the repair wizard in the recovery which said it sorted out the problem but now the role has been reversed lol my machine now boots into windows 7 but there is still no boot loader option at startup so now i cant access XP!!

dam machines lol
 
It's an application that allows you to add/remove and edit boot information easily. It puts an interface on top of the command line tools that you've just been running.

You should just be able to go

Add/Remove > Windows NT/XP > Select Drive > Add
 
o right cool so this will give me my boot loader option back when i startup? i take it also you download it and burn it to cd then boot from it right?

sorry for sounding stupid mate im learning lol
 
all sorted thanks again i just added windows xp to the boot loader now when i start up i get the option windows 7 (recovered) and microsoft windows and my primary boot is now windows 7 again so all is good, dont no why its named windows 7 recovered tho but who cares it all works now!!

Thanks so much again mate you saved me a whole format of 7 there really really greatful
 
Good to hear.

If you really want to rename it you have to use an elevated command prompt and

bcdedit /set {current} description "Windows 7" *

* Assumes it's currently listed as current otherwise you'll need to use the resumeobject ID

{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}
 
o right i would like to rename them both but it sounds a little confusing to me lol dont wanna break anything else after having to sort out this problem
 
Here are the steps

Elevated Command Prompt

Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt > Right-click 'Run As Adminstrator' > Click Yes to Allow

* You'll notice the path has default to "C:\Windows\system32\" and that the title is "Adminstrator: command prompt:

On the EasyBCD first page you should have an overview of you boot entires.

Code: 
Entry #1 

Name:  Windows 7
BCD ID:  {current}
Drive:  C:\
Bootloader Path:  \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory:  \Windows
That's my Windows 7 entry yours might be the same or it might have a long set of text and numbers as the BCD ID.

If it's current the simply type in your command prompt

bcdedit /set {current} description "Windows 7"

Go back to EasyBCD and click View Settings. You'll notice the Description has changed.

Now find the entry for Windows XP and do the same this time using it's ID

Example.

bcdedit /set {5594603c-eba2-11de-abc3-b9b56199a5be} description "Windows XP"
 
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