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Dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 8
I successfully installed Win 8 on a new partition e: on main hard drive with Win 7 on c:. All was fine with pc booting into Win 8 by default. I used the option on booting into Win 8 to make Win 7 the default OS. This was fine with an option appearing before going into an OS giving choice to leave as boot to Win 7 or changing to Win 8. This option has now disappeared.
After instal of Win 8 I think I am right in saying Win 8 was given c: drive letter, after using option to make Win 7 the default the c: designation went back to c:, but not 100% sure if that was correct.
Question is, how to get the option on which OS back.
After instal of Win 8 I think I am right in saying Win 8 was given c: drive letter, after using option to make Win 7 the default the c: designation went back to c:, but not 100% sure if that was correct.
Question is, how to get the option on which OS back.
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TRied that but no Windows 8 option
How are you setting boot options,msconfig?
Give visual BCD a try http://www.boyans.net
It has a dual boot repair option: http://www.boyans.net/DualBootRepair.html
It has a dual boot repair option: http://www.boyans.net/DualBootRepair.html
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To follow up on ve3ofa, BCDEDIT on Windows 8 can probably do both types of boot record. Perhaps if you use it to edit the Windows 7 boot store it can permanently place those changes in.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667(v=ws.10).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667(v=ws.10).aspx
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I tried all the other solutions, even with this one a full repair was necessary, thanks.
Easy BCD should be able to help you edit your boot records and add a record for Windows 8.
You can find it here: http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD