I am new to BCDEdit and EasyBCD is not letting me edit the BCD entries. I have the both Win 7 and 8's BCDedit values in a text file. I just need to add them in one file. When I add 8's ID to Win7 BCD it says "An error occurred while attempting to reference the specified entry. The system cannot find the file specified."
One more thing, I can access the D: (Windows 8) drive from Windows 7 and vice versa, but I can't boot up Win 8 without setting it as active in diskpart. When I do that, Windows 7 is no longer available and setting it as active in diskpart doesn't let me boot back to it BECAUSE Windows 8 switches its letter to C: and Win 7 becomes D: (Check BCD below). I have to use TestDisk from gparted to recover the partition structure and then flag them all primary with SYSTEM as *primary boot.
Win 8 BCD
Windows 7 BCD
What to do?
Thanks!
One more thing, I can access the D: (Windows 8) drive from Windows 7 and vice versa, but I can't boot up Win 8 without setting it as active in diskpart. When I do that, Windows 7 is no longer available and setting it as active in diskpart doesn't let me boot back to it BECAUSE Windows 8 switches its letter to C: and Win 7 becomes D: (Check BCD below). I have to use TestDisk from gparted to recover the partition structure and then flag them all primary with SYSTEM as *primary boot.
Win 8 BCD
Code:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.8250](c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
integrityservices Enable
default {current}
resumeobject {e6025af2-6b01-11e1-8d4f-cf2bd6e13be7}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
custom:26000025 Yes
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 8 Consumer Preview
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {e6025af4-6b01-11e1-8d4f-cf2bd6e13be7}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {e6025af2-6b01-11e1-8d4f-cf2bd6e13be7}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
Windows 7 BCD
Code:
Windows Boot Manager--------------------
identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
extendedinput Yes
default {158181c1-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
resumeobject {158181c0-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
displayorder {158181c1-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout 10
displaybootmenu Yes
customactions 0x1000085000001
0x5400000f
custom:5400000f {dbb88b28-578b-11e1-97fc-f4368bcca7f0}
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {158181c1-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
recoverysequence {dbb88b28-578b-11e1-97fc-f4368bcca7f0}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {158181c0-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
nx OptIn
bootlog No
What to do?
Thanks!
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7/8