Solved How to enable the windows metro boot manager ?

choymits · Jun 5, 2014

What should i type to enable the metro boot?

please help thanks...

choymits · Jun 5, 2014

Boot-manager-for-Windows-7-and-Windows-8-dual-boot-system.jpg

i dont want this kind of boot manager.. i want the metro design.. help me guys.. thanks

alphanumeric · Jun 5, 2014

It's been a while since I dual booted 7 and 8 but I seem to remember seeing the old style boot menu if 7 was set as the default OS. If you have 7 as the default when time runs out switch it to 8 and see if you get the other boot menu.

Boozad · Jun 5, 2014

Download EasyBCD and set Windows 8 as your Primary boot. That should bring back the Metro boot managerif 8 was installed last.

alphanumeric · Jun 5, 2014

You can set it in Windows without having to use any other program. Advanced system properties, startup and recovery.

Boozad · Jun 5, 2014

I did try in Windows 7 but while it changed the boot sequence it didn't change the boot manager screen type. Maybe it was just a one off or something, I just did it with EasyBCD and it worked. Possibly just circumstance.

alphanumeric · Jun 5, 2014

I think you have to actually boot into Windows 8 once for it to switch. I think you would have got it on the next boot up anyway. Either way you got what you wanted.:thumb:

Saltgrass · Jun 5, 2014

You have a couple of entries in your BCD store that should not be there.

The first is the bootmgr with the Display boot menu yes entry. I am not sure exactly what that does but it is not on most Dual Boots.

The Second one is the Windows 7 Ultimate loader. The Bootmenupolicy standard is not used for Windows 7.

But the part about having Windows 8 are the primary OS is necessary. And that can be done on the page you illustrate, or msconfig.exe

choymits · Jun 6, 2014

I tried all u said my primary OS is win 8.1 now, but still i dont get the metro boot manager...

Saltgrass · Jun 6, 2014

Maybe another BCD store listing to see its current configuration. Don't worry about the .efi entries, they will be .exe for you and the path may be different for the bootmgr.

Perhaps also confirm your configuration. Both OSes are on one hard drive and Windows 7 was loaded first?

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {fef8874c-5f63-11e2-9036-bd971290c819}
displayorder {current}
{fef88753-5f63-11e2-9036-bd971290c819}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 8
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {fef8874e-5f63-11e2-9036-bd971290c819}
recoveryenabled Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {fef8874c-5f63-11e2-9036-bd971290c819}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {fef88753-5f63-11e2-9036-bd971290c819}
device partition=E:
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 7 Ultimate
locale en-US
recoverysequence {fef88754-5f63-11e2-9036-bd971290c819}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=E:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {392ca1d2-5f68-11e2-98ac-806e6f6e6963}
nx OptIn

Boozad · Jun 8, 2014

alphanumeric said:
I think you have to actually boot into Windows 8 once for it to switch. I think you would have got it on the next boot up anyway. Either way you got what you wanted.:thumb:

I'm not sure what changed it to be honest, I only wanted to see how to do it and changed it back as I wanted 7 as my primary boot. I'll have to have a play with it and see how it works.

alphanumeric · Jun 8, 2014

If I remember right > you change the default OS > reboot and let it time out and boot to that OS > then on the next boot up it switches to that OS's boot menu. If you look in disk management, before and after, I think you'll see the active partition gets changed. I say I think because I haven't dual booted in a long time so I'm just going from memory.

adamf · Jun 8, 2014

The boot manager you get is the one that was created when you first define dual boot - that is when you first installed your second OS. For example I dual boot Windows 8.1 but have the boot manager from Hyper-V server (which is black and white like yours) the partition for which I've since deleted.

What you could do is run BCDboot to copy the Windows 8 version

BCDboot Command-Line Options

nemo92380 · Jun 8, 2014

Hi,

I had the same problem after install W 8 on dual boot with W 7 HP.
The default boot manager was the W 7's that mean that odd black and white dos style menu...
BBy the way when i decided to update my W8 to W 8.1, by a kind of miracle the default boot manager turn into Metro W8's and now whatever i do that mean if i boot on W7 or on W8.1 i always have the Metro Boot Manager and that's fun and more efficient

If you don't have the W8.1 update from Windows Store try to do it and tell us what happen.

See You.

Winuser · Jun 8, 2014

This is how I restored my Win 8 boot menu. How to restore windows 8 GUI boot-loader after installing windows 7? - Super User

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