Very strange boot behavior

On my laptop (i5, Vertex2 SSD) I installed Win8 in double boot. But now I have a very strange boot behavior.

1. The BIOS phase is a LOT longer than when I had only Win7. It takes ages before I get to the light blue screen where I can select the OS

2. When I select Win8, it boots instantly. But when I select Win7, it goes back into the BIOS splash screen and boots from there.

Anybody have a clue how to fix that.

I am afraid that will happen if you use win8 boot management.

The solution I found was to make my windows 7 partition "system" -thereby using win7 boot mgmt - and add win8 as a boot menu option.

It is much quicker and saves all that restarting nonsense.

It should be easy to do - usually just a couple of commands - only takes a few seconds.

Alternatively:

You might find that if you set win7 as the Default os using msconfig - that will fix it for you.

I don't know how or why, but my Windows 7 is drive D:

I then installed 8 to my C: drive, while leaving everything connected.

Windows 8 installer did not do anything special. By that, I mean I had to actually use my boot drive selection screen from the bios to boot to 8 or 7.

To make it a little easier, all I did then was leave bios to boot to the C: Windows 8. Installed EasyBCD to Windows 8 and then added 7 to the boot menu.

All is well, but for some reason, the computer insists on leaving 2 choices now for Windows 7 (along with 8 too - so 3 in total.)
Trying to remove one of the 7 entries results in both of them actually being deleted, with EasyBCD or with msconfig.

lol

Trying to remove one of the 7 entries results in both of them actually being deleted, with EasyBCD or with msconfig.

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Interesting - could you post the output of bcdedit and we can have a look.

I presume you are saying that if you delete one of the 7 entries - they both go,.

Then when you re add a 7 entry - two reappear?

The only action I took between making these two screenshots is that I hit the delete button 1 time. That's it.

I obviously did not save it because I don't want that. The same happens with EasyBCD.

I haven't tried adding yet out of laziness lol. Don't wanna fuss with it since having 2 choices for 7 is not hurting anything. I'll probably get to it anyhow eventually just to say I did and forget about it lol.

Strange behavior though.

Alternatively:

You might find that if you set win7 as the Default os using msconfig - that will fix it for you.

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Thanks SIW2. I think I go with that. But now I have to wait for 10 days because I just mailed the laptop to Toshiba for repair - the mouse pad and the clickers stopped working (in both Win7 and Win8). A BIOS update did not help either.