Hi guys,
I've got a problem with my dual boot setup:
I've installed win8, selected an empty partition, booted it, everything peachy.
The only surprising thing was that driver letters where switched: my windows 7 install and data was now in D: drive and windows 8 install appropiated C: letter drive without consulting me.
This became a problem came when I tried to boot windows 7 and an annoying startup repair assistant showed up.
Tried autorepair but no luck. [to be honest, I let it unattended and don't know what happened, don't even know if it finished since the battery died, but it lasts at least 2 hours, and that should be enough, right?]
Then read somewhere changing active partition to win7 could help. Bad idea: now no boot at all.
After a failed attempt to autorepair with windows 8 dvd restore utility I managed to restore windows 8 dual boot menu with win8 install dvd -> repair console -> bootrec /fixboot bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /rebuildbcd commands, but windows 7 is still not loading: it says it can't find winload.exe or it is corrupt, and I guess it has something to do with the fact that it is now in D: drive
This is my current bcdedit output in windows 8:
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-us
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {186227ae-b91b-11e1-9b6c-1c7508fb9bfe}
displayorder {current}
{e1b5dcd9-b960-11e1-b749-d6509e56593f}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 8
locale en-us
inherit {bootloadersettings}
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \windows
resumeobject {186227ae-b91b-11e1-9b6c-1c7508fb9bfe}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
detecthal Yes
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {e1b5dcd9-b960-11e1-b749-d6509e56593f}
device partition=D:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7 Ultimate
locale es-ES
osdevice partition=D:
systemroot \Windows
bootmenupolicy Standard
Funny thing is preinstalled PB laptop has a system 100MB partition currently containing a bunch of win7 boot files. Isn't the loader path and drive supposed to be somewhere there?
Any suggestions?
I've got a problem with my dual boot setup:
I've installed win8, selected an empty partition, booted it, everything peachy.
The only surprising thing was that driver letters where switched: my windows 7 install and data was now in D: drive and windows 8 install appropiated C: letter drive without consulting me.
This became a problem came when I tried to boot windows 7 and an annoying startup repair assistant showed up.
Tried autorepair but no luck. [to be honest, I let it unattended and don't know what happened, don't even know if it finished since the battery died, but it lasts at least 2 hours, and that should be enough, right?]
Then read somewhere changing active partition to win7 could help. Bad idea: now no boot at all.
After a failed attempt to autorepair with windows 8 dvd restore utility I managed to restore windows 8 dual boot menu with win8 install dvd -> repair console -> bootrec /fixboot bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /rebuildbcd commands, but windows 7 is still not loading: it says it can't find winload.exe or it is corrupt, and I guess it has something to do with the fact that it is now in D: drive
This is my current bcdedit output in windows 8:
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-us
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {186227ae-b91b-11e1-9b6c-1c7508fb9bfe}
displayorder {current}
{e1b5dcd9-b960-11e1-b749-d6509e56593f}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 8
locale en-us
inherit {bootloadersettings}
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \windows
resumeobject {186227ae-b91b-11e1-9b6c-1c7508fb9bfe}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
detecthal Yes
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {e1b5dcd9-b960-11e1-b749-d6509e56593f}
device partition=D:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7 Ultimate
locale es-ES
osdevice partition=D:
systemroot \Windows
bootmenupolicy Standard
Funny thing is preinstalled PB laptop has a system 100MB partition currently containing a bunch of win7 boot files. Isn't the loader path and drive supposed to be somewhere there?
Any suggestions?
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My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- windows 7/8 dual boot
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Packard Bell Easy Note TS44-HR-244SP
- CPU
- i5-2410@2.3GHz
- Memory
- 8GB-DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD / NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
- Screen Resolution
- 1366x768
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital Scorpio Blue 640 GB SATA 2
- Internet Speed
- depending on neighbour