Put my test SSD, back in the box, boots to fast 1.5 sec with Windows 7 in UEFI mode. No time to enter BIOS if need.
Those who kiss and tell are bad but those who screw and brag are downright horrible!
Put my test SSD, back in the box, boots to fast 1.5 sec with Windows 7 in UEFI mode. No time to enter BIOS if need.
Still experimenting.... and learning.
Decided to leave the Win8 HDD connected and install Win7 on the SSD.
Works fine except that the boot manager is the old style Win7 text screen allowing a choice of Win7 or Win8.
I would like to use the Win8 boot manager (loader).
One person in another forum said he did a "reinstall" of Win8 from within Win8 and got the Win8 graphical boot manager back. He though the Win8 "refresh" would work just as well.
Is there not a "BCDEDIT" tool that would or a simple Win8 repair boot function without using the "Refresh" or "Reset" operations the do far more than needed?
Put my test SSD, back in the box, boots to fast 1.5 sec with Windows 7 in UEFI mode. No time to enter BIOS if need.
Those who kiss and tell are bad but those who screw and brag are downright horrible!
Still experimenting.... and learning.
Decided to leave the Win8 HDD connected and install Win7 on the SSD.
Works fine except that the boot manager is the old style Win7 text screen allowing a choice of Win7 or Win8.
I would like to use the Win8 boot manager (loader).
One person in another forum said he did a "reinstall" of Win8 from within Win8 and got the Win8 graphical boot manager back. He though the Win8 "refresh" would work just as well.
Is there not a "BCDEDIT" tool that would or a simple Win8 repair boot function without using the "Refresh" or "Reset" operations the do far more than needed?
Still cannot get Refresh or Reset to work.
If I chose the Windows Boot Manager in the UEFI BIOS settings as the default boot device the system boots to the Windows 7 OS choice menu and I can chose either OS to boot to.
If I chose the Windows 7 SSD as the default boot device the system will not boot. Interestingly, and just for hoots, I disconnected the Windows 8 HDD, booted to the Windows 7 Installation DVD and did a REPAIR function on the Windows 7 SSD installation. The boot files were "fixed" and I could then boot to the SSD as a standalone boot to Windows 7.
P.S. While I find Windows 8 interesting and will install a copy on my own system, for production work environments (desktop apps) I have yet to find any "must have" new features to justify upgrading to Windows 8.