Windows 7 Boot Manager- Multiple Entries

[amaze904]

Hello, glad to be apart of this forum, have came here alot in the past for issues and never had to register to solve one...until now lol

Ok, so recently i put together a custom build and did a fresh install of windows 7 OS Home Premium onto my SSD by creating a install disc from my old one. Had everything running fine and then i put my old HDD in the new PC and again no problems.

Then like always, i get bored and and start customizing my new toy/OS and ended up tweaking the login screen (like on my old system- but i think i used a different method) and then windows goes X.X

Luckily i made a image of the OS right before i did so and restored the OS back to normal. But now, and only now, do i have the boot manager up everytime i boot.

so i opened up msconfig.exe and peeps over to the boot tab and saw that instead of picking up the original OS and the iso, its picking up the one from my old HDD that never showed up before, and its labeled *recovered*



im am lost lol

i dont wanna delete it as that may cause problems if i ever need to use it as a master, but i dont want it to show up everytime i boot.

and also im not sure if it is booting off the backup or the SSD, though i have made sure that my Bios is pointing to the SSD and not the HDD.

Thanx for your time and help.

 

[Ztruker]

This is a good time to use EasyBCD to look at and edit the boot info.

Use it to remove the entry for the old hard drive or set the default to your SSD and the timeout to 2-3 seconds.

 

[amaze904]

removing the old HDD entry wont cause it to be lost forever?
meaning if i ever need it again as a back up drive if my main OS spontaneously combusts, it will still be recognized and i can boot off it instead.

 

[Ztruker]

You would have to add it back via EasyBCD. Maybe instead of removing it, you can just set the default to the one you want and set the timeout to 2-3 seconds. That way if you ever want to boot it, it will be there for you.

 

[Kaktussoft]

Post screenshot of disk management please. Then I can say where you boot from.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html
All fields visible please

 

[amaze904]

 

[Kaktussoft]

System boots from "system reserved" on DISK 0. Your win7 OS is on disk 0 as well. I assume that's SSD(?)
"system reserved" has the SYSTEM flag, so that's the boot partition with bootmgr and bootmenu.

 

[amaze904]

is it healthy to have it boot from the reserve partition? shouldnt that be a "backup" rather then the primary?

so is everything good? or is something out of line?

 

[Britton30]

System Reserved is where the boot partition is supposed to be. If you are concerned the redundant w7 install will fail, make on image of it. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html#post648001 Easy, free, reliable.

 

[amaze904]

I can't believe I failed to mention, but when I select the recovered option of win7- it fails to load-
It blinks bsod and restarts

 

[Dude]

I can't believe I failed to mention, but when I select the recovered option of win7- it fails to load-
It blinks bsod and restarts

You should post in this thread to help resolve it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-help-support/96879-blue-screen-death-bsod-posting-instructions.html

 

[Kaktussoft]

is it healthy to have it boot from the reserve partition? shouldnt that be a "backup" rather then the primary?

so is everything good? or is something out of line?

bootmanager and bootmenu are on ACTIVE partition. Only a PRIMARY partition can be ACTIVE.
When system powers on it loads the MBR boot code from sector 0 on disk and executes it. It searches an ACTIVE partition and jumps to its bootsector.

 

[amaze904]

ok will do, but now that i got to prying into my OS- theres no minidumps in the folder....

I am so confused as to whats going....

i know for a fact exactly what caused all these problems- modifying the logon folder- though i cant remember where its located or where to start as its been several months since i did what i did...


and just to verify, my system is NOT booting off the SSD? correct?

FML

 

[Kaktussoft]

bootmgr and bootmenu are on disk0 "system reserved". win7 is on disk 0 ( C drive) as well. Disk 0 is 59Gb. Is that SSD?
disk 1 is about 3TB
disk 2 is about 1TB

So it must be SSD. See #6

 

[amaze904]

yes the OS is on the SSD