Hi All.
Recently I installed Windows 8 Pro on my system (in a SSD), after a few weeks I noticed that the OS isn't compatible with certain programs I use, so I wanted to install Windows 7 Home Premium alongside it.
Since I don't really want to clean install 8 after installing 7, I installed 7 onto a separate HDD within my case.
I've now got to the stage of the black background/white text boot menu, which shows Windows 8 and Windows 7, but whenever I select Windows 7 it just reboots the PC back to the Boot Splash screen (Bios/Post screen)
I've repaired the install with Windows 7 discs and with Windows 8 discs and neither seemed to help. I've used EasyBCD installed on Windows 8 to create the boot menu and that doesn't help anything either.
When in Windows 8 the Drive letters are such
C:/ is Windows 8
W:/ is Windows 7
Short of clean installing I really don't know quite what to do.
Any suggestions?
Before it is asked, that drives have been in that case since I built it and not moved from a seperate machine.
Thank you for your help.
Recently I installed Windows 8 Pro on my system (in a SSD), after a few weeks I noticed that the OS isn't compatible with certain programs I use, so I wanted to install Windows 7 Home Premium alongside it.
Since I don't really want to clean install 8 after installing 7, I installed 7 onto a separate HDD within my case.
I've now got to the stage of the black background/white text boot menu, which shows Windows 8 and Windows 7, but whenever I select Windows 7 it just reboots the PC back to the Boot Splash screen (Bios/Post screen)
I've repaired the install with Windows 7 discs and with Windows 8 discs and neither seemed to help. I've used EasyBCD installed on Windows 8 to create the boot menu and that doesn't help anything either.
When in Windows 8 the Drive letters are such
C:/ is Windows 8
W:/ is Windows 7
Short of clean installing I really don't know quite what to do.
Any suggestions?
Before it is asked, that drives have been in that case since I built it and not moved from a seperate machine.
Thank you for your help.
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II X4 965 B/E @ 3.41GHz
- Motherboard
- AMD 990FX AM3+ EUFI
- Memory
- 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- Sapphire HD7770 GHZ Edition
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 1x 60GB SSD
1x 140GB 2.5" HDD
1x 500GB 3.5" HDD
- PSU
- OCZ ModXStream 600W Modular
- Case
- CM Storm Enforcer
- Cooling
- CM Hyper TX3 Evo (CPU), 200mm CM (Front Fan), CM Mach 0.8 (Rear Fan)