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Help needed with BOOTMGR, BCD on a multiboot machine
Hi there,
Eighteen months ago, I purchased Seven as a download only. For some reason, I didn't burnt it to a DVD but stored the expanded iso in a dedicated partition (say, the third partition of my second hard drive). So far, so good, install went fine and everything is dandy ever after.
Also, this is a dual boot machine, the primary OS being Ubuntu. Choose the OS at startup via Grub, (or, alternatively, by selecting the boot drive from BIOS).
Since then, I've been playing around a bit with my partitions and boot sequences, most recently when I painstakingly installed W7 SP1, which required me to move and expand the W7 system partition .
My partitions layout is now briefly as follow :
disk 1 : [unused space][linux swap][linux sys]
disk 2 : [win sys][win data][win install][linux swap][linux data]
A bit complicated, but it works.
My only problem now is that the win boot process goes through the [win install] partition, no matter what. That's where the BOOTMGR and the BCD landed, for reasons that are not completely clear to me . This does not impact everyday operations, but if I ever want to boot from the install disk, I simply cannot.
I'm now willing to clean up my act, that is :
1) make normal Windows boot totaly independant of the [win install] partition
2) re-build an install iso that I could burn to a DVD or squeeze onto a USB pen drive, regaining the ability to perform an eventual fresh install on an eventual new machine
3) proceed from 2) to build a rescue DVD or pen drive
As you can guess, I am really not familiar with BOOTMGR and BCD and such.
So the question is : Where do I start ?
Bonus track : what BCDEDIT currently says :
Microsoft Windows [version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. Tous droits réservés.
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit
Gestionnaire de démarrage Windows
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identificateur {bootmgr}
device partition=Z:
path \bootmgr
description Windows Boot Manager
locale fr-FR
default {current}
resumeobject {0476f794-f432-11e0-aa18-806e6f6e6963}
displayorder {current}
timeout 30
Chargeur de démarrage Windows
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identificateur {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7 Home Premium N (récupéré)
locale fr-FR
recoverysequence {502b3cab-f43a-11e0-b5c7-c8976b7f0609}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {0476f794-f432-11e0-aa18-806e6f6e6963}
C:\Windows\system32>
Last edited by TheWindows; 12 Oct 2011 at 04:53. Reason: typo