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I am running Seven and Eight in a dual boot set up. I ran into an issue that I think is weird... but maybe it is normal. I dunno... I am new to dual booting.
I managed to corrupt a bunch of Eight's system files [side note: 7tsp does NOT work with Eight yet. Heh. Oh well... live and learn. ]. That is not the weird part. When I went to reboot into Seven, however, the weird thing happens. I get a blue screen telling me my PC couldn't start before I even chose which OS to go to!
I ran Visual BCD Dual Boot Repair and it still gives me the error. Eight runs an auto-repair function or two and when it restarts only then does it give me the choice to boot into a different OS.
Why would a bunch of corrupted SysWow64 and System 32 files affect a boot selector screen? The OS hasn't been started yet... is this some sort of pre-boot integrity check? Or is this normal? Or is the boot screen GUI part of Eight itself and not a separate bunch of files on the MBR?
Like I said, I'm a noob at dual booting...
I managed to corrupt a bunch of Eight's system files [side note: 7tsp does NOT work with Eight yet. Heh. Oh well... live and learn. ]. That is not the weird part. When I went to reboot into Seven, however, the weird thing happens. I get a blue screen telling me my PC couldn't start before I even chose which OS to go to!
I ran Visual BCD Dual Boot Repair and it still gives me the error. Eight runs an auto-repair function or two and when it restarts only then does it give me the choice to boot into a different OS.
Why would a bunch of corrupted SysWow64 and System 32 files affect a boot selector screen? The OS hasn't been started yet... is this some sort of pre-boot integrity check? Or is this normal? Or is the boot screen GUI part of Eight itself and not a separate bunch of files on the MBR?
Like I said, I'm a noob at dual booting...
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- W7x64, W8CP x64
- System Manufacturer/Model
- home made
- CPU
- Intel Q6600
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte EP45-UD3L
- Memory
- g.skill ddr2 1066 8 gigs
- Graphics Card(s)
- nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Acer x223w
- Screen Resolution
- 1680 x 1050
- Hard Drives
- WD Caviar Black 500Gb
WD Caviar Black 1Tb
2 x WD Elements 1Tb external