Restore Win8 Boot Mgmr

jweigel

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Here is the background. Had a Dell Workstation that had Win7 on one SSD drive (Drive 0 Boot). Added another new SSD drive (not the boot drive) and installed Win8 (MVL RTM) under a dual boot. All was fine having the Win8 Boot Mgmr.

The Win7 Drive fails so we install another new SSD in its Drive 0 (boot) location. Staff wanted to try using an custom image to reload Win7 so they unplugged the Win8 drive to ensure it did not overwrite or install their. As you can image we have a single booting Win7 and no Win8. We switched the Win8 drive in the Bios to be the Boot drive and booted into a Win8 reovovery which fixed the Win8 and Win7 bootloader to see both. But it is the older Win7 Boot loader.

Can we get the newer GUI Win8 Bootloader back?

We tried bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy standardt but it did not complete.

Thanks for any help.

jjw
 

My Computer

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    64-bit Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom self built
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Premium
    Other Info
    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
The "t" was a typo on my part. But thanks for such a quick response It might be as simple as setting Win8 to be the default OS to boot into.

Thanks again Shawn.

jjw
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My Computer

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    64-bit Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom self built
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
    Browser
    Internet Explorer 11
    Antivirus
    Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Premium
    Other Info
    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
i had the problem of seeing the win7 boot menu instead of the win8 boot menu
i was able to boot into win8 but not see the graphical win8 bootloader

i tried all the repair stuff and bcdedit etc then

i used the bcdboot command in an elevated command prompt to reload the win8 bootloader files and now all is ok

example

bcdboot c:\windows /s c:
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win8
    System Manufacturer/Model
    dell area 51
    CPU
    i7
    Motherboard
    dell
    Memory
    12 gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    ati 9750
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