I believe I would mark the Win8 partition Active and run Win8 Startup Repair from it's DVD or Repair CD. It should reestablish the metro-style Multi Boot screen.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...ndows-8-a.html
If it fails to create the Multi Boot Menu then install EasyBCD to Win8 to add the other two OS's on the Add OS Entry tab. Save each separately.
Whatever system you can boot:
Download and instal Visual BCD Editor - Windows 7|Vista.
The utility comes with "Dual-boot Repair" tool.
Run it and click on "Automatic Repair".
This will bring back Windows 8 in control of the booting.
After you reboot to Windows 8 just run Visual BCD and select
"Create missing loaders" - this will create loaders (if missing) for all available Windows installations.
when i installed xp after the win 7 and 8 installs it made the xp partition the boot (active) partition. i switched the active back to the sys reserved to boot win 7 and add xp to its boot manager but windows just starts loading, BSODs then instantly restarts and boot loops. if i use win 8 as the option it just says "Boot device inaccessible" in the win 8 blue recovery screen.
i tried the msdart utitlities and it cannot bind to either 7 or 8 to do a repair.
Since you can boot XP, first try deleting the 7 and 8 listings in EasyBCD Edit OS Menu tab. Then add them again on the Add OS tab. This will make any corrections necessary in the BCD.
If this fails try the Win8 Repair disk or DVD to run Automatic (Startup) Repair as given earlier.
Last edited by gregrocker; 03 May 2012 at 22:18.
1. Are you saying that installation is not finishing or giving error in XP ?EDIT**** checked. only works if you boot vista 7 or 8. wont install in xp and that is the only one that will boot
2. You cannot run Dual-boot Repair in XP ?
Could you be more specific ? 1 or 2 ?
Which version of product are you using ?
Latest version is 0.9.3.1 - it needs XP and up + .NET 2.0
Last edited by boyans; 03 May 2012 at 22:11. Reason: added product version
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