Add Win 7 to Win 8 BCD or vica versa? EasyBCD doesn't work.

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I am new to BCDEdit and EasyBCD is not letting me edit the BCD entries. I have the both Win 7 and 8's BCDedit values in a text file. I just need to add them in one file. When I add 8's ID to Win7 BCD it says "An error occurred while attempting to reference the specified entry. The system cannot find the file specified."

One more thing, I can access the D: (Windows 8) drive from Windows 7 and vice versa, but I can't boot up Win 8 without setting it as active in diskpart. When I do that, Windows 7 is no longer available and setting it as active in diskpart doesn't let me boot back to it BECAUSE Windows 8 switches its letter to C: and Win 7 becomes D: (Check BCD below). I have to use TestDisk from gparted to recover the partition structure and then flag them all primary with SYSTEM as *primary boot.

Win 8 BCD

Code: 
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.8250](c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit


Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier              {bootmgr}
device                  partition=C:
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {globalsettings}
integrityservices       Enable
default                 {current}
resumeobject            {e6025af2-6b01-11e1-8d4f-cf2bd6e13be7}
displayorder            {current}
toolsdisplayorder       {memdiag}
timeout                 30
custom:26000025         Yes


Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {current}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Windows 8 Consumer Preview
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence        {e6025af4-6b01-11e1-8d4f-cf2bd6e13be7}
integrityservices       Enable
recoveryenabled         Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {e6025af2-6b01-11e1-8d4f-cf2bd6e13be7}
nx                      OptIn
bootmenupolicy          Standard

Windows 7 BCD

Code: 
Windows Boot Manager--------------------
identifier              {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device                  partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
description             Windows Boot Manager
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
extendedinput           Yes
default                 {158181c1-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
resumeobject            {158181c0-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
displayorder            {158181c1-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
toolsdisplayorder       {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout                 10
displaybootmenu         Yes
customactions           0x1000085000001
                        0x5400000f
custom:5400000f         {dbb88b28-578b-11e1-97fc-f4368bcca7f0}


Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {158181c1-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Windows 7
locale                  en-US
inherit                 {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
recoverysequence        {dbb88b28-578b-11e1-97fc-f4368bcca7f0}
recoveryenabled         Yes
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {158181c0-9a00-11db-8a1d-b11d19fd3102}
nx                      OptIn
bootlog                 No

What to do?

Thanks!
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7/8
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