Issue With Dual Booting Win 8 with 7

I'm trying to dual boot Windows 8 with Windows 7 on a new machine.

I have both operating systems installed, but the computer never shows the boot manager. It just boots right into Windows 8.

There's a feature in Windows 8 where you can switch to another operating system on the hard drive, and it works. I can switch into it... but here's the problem.

- I would like to see the boot manager to pick which OS I want
- I have used Easy BCD to no available
- I have used msconfig, and Windows 7 is the default, I've selected wait for user input - still nothing.

Now, I will point out, in case I did something wrong here.

- I installed Windows 8 first on partition 1 of hard drive 1
- I installed Windows 7 after on partition 2 of hard drive 2
- a second hard drive is for data across both but isn't part of any operating system

Should I install these differently?

What am I doing wrong? What process am I missing? I'm confused as to what I'm getting wrong here. I would think that 2 partitions with 2 operating systems would automatically ask for this sort of thing via the boot manager.

What's happening here?

Thanks in advance!

Welcome to EightForums.

I'm trying to dual boot Windows 8 with Windows 7 on a new machine.

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As you say, new MOBO have a uEFI BIOS.

Your partitioning should look this, if Windows 8 installed first




http://www.eightforums.com/tutorial...e-firmware-interface-install-windows-8-a.html

So I should be able to just make the changes and it should work? I'll give it a shot.

Perhaps I should confirm, should I be reinstalling the operating systems in question if I follow this guide you posted?
Thanks so much for your response!

Do check you have uEFI.