Help with dual boot-winloader issues
[DEL]Okay, so I decided I wanted to try windows 8, so I grabbed the ISO from the Microsoft website, created a separate hard drive partition, and I am quite certain that during the installation process, I had installed to the new partition. However, when I tried to access win7 again after installing, it repeatedly gave me Automatic Repair, and the bootrec.exe options I tried
(bcdedit /export C:/BCD_Backup
c:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /RebuildBcd)
appeared to work, but now when I try to access win7, it says 0x0c0000428- Windows cannot verify the digital signature of this file ('this file' presumeably being winload)
So what I want to know is how I can fix this (If I can at all!) All my data is on win7, including paid programs. Why would win8 just install over win7 when I custom installed to a separate hard drive partition?!?! Ugh. I am seriously fed up with this. I would buy a new computer, except that it costs too much, and knowing my luck, there's probably a fix, and I'll have bought it for nothing. Haven't tried easyBCD yet...though I don't think it'll help if win7 got wiped.
EDIT: after looking over it, my disks have been shifted back one...as in F became C, C became D, etc. Also, supposedly, I still have two OSes. WTF, windows?!?! [/DEL]
I want to punch my computer.
So bad.
Haha well okay disregard all that please. I freaked out when I saw the win8 symbol on my usual primary hard drive. Being stupid. However, the problem I have now is that win7 never works. It gives me an error saying that winloader is not there...even though it clearly is. I have tried fixing this by switching winloader and winloader~1 as suggested on other threads, but didn't work. I somehow also had winloader~2. Haven't tried that one yet, though if the other two don't work I really don't know....And I really don't like 8. Not at all. [DEL]What the hell is up with the start button??[/DEL]
[DEL]Okay, so I decided I wanted to try windows 8, so I grabbed the ISO from the Microsoft website, created a separate hard drive partition, and I am quite certain that during the installation process, I had installed to the new partition. However, when I tried to access win7 again after installing, it repeatedly gave me Automatic Repair, and the bootrec.exe options I tried
(bcdedit /export C:/BCD_Backup
c:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /RebuildBcd)
appeared to work, but now when I try to access win7, it says 0x0c0000428- Windows cannot verify the digital signature of this file ('this file' presumeably being winload)
So what I want to know is how I can fix this (If I can at all!) All my data is on win7, including paid programs. Why would win8 just install over win7 when I custom installed to a separate hard drive partition?!?! Ugh. I am seriously fed up with this. I would buy a new computer, except that it costs too much, and knowing my luck, there's probably a fix, and I'll have bought it for nothing. Haven't tried easyBCD yet...though I don't think it'll help if win7 got wiped.
EDIT: after looking over it, my disks have been shifted back one...as in F became C, C became D, etc. Also, supposedly, I still have two OSes. WTF, windows?!?! [/DEL]
I want to punch my computer.
So bad.
Haha well okay disregard all that please. I freaked out when I saw the win8 symbol on my usual primary hard drive. Being stupid. However, the problem I have now is that win7 never works. It gives me an error saying that winloader is not there...even though it clearly is. I have tried fixing this by switching winloader and winloader~1 as suggested on other threads, but didn't work. I somehow also had winloader~2. Haven't tried that one yet, though if the other two don't work I really don't know....And I really don't like 8. Not at all. [DEL]What the hell is up with the start button??[/DEL]
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