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To use or not to use BOOTSECT.EXE ?
'Hope you can help me with this one. To use or not to use BOOTSECT.EXE?
I have Windows 7 Pro installed on a brand new 1 TB HDD. My homemade server/ workstation works flawlessly it seems but for one important detail: it boots to the black and white screen of the "Windows boot manager". Only when I pick the choice of Windows 7 and press Enter do I finally get to go to Windows heaven.
The system itself contains another HDD which previously had Windows XP Pro on it before I wiped it out, leaving only the invisible \boot directory. Maybe is it this unknown directory left after I erased everything else that caused the problem.
At first, BCDEDIT would yield information of the kind:
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier: {bootmgr}
device: partition=X:
Windows Legacy OS Loader
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identifier: {ntldr}
device: partition=X:
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier: {current}
device: partition=C:
Then I used "Windows Recovery Environment" booting from the DVD of Windows and BCDEDIT gives this:
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier: {bootmgr}
device: partition=X:
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier: {current}
device: partition=C:
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier: {long series of alphanumeric}
device: ramdisk=[C:]\Recovery\ same long series of alphanumeric \Winre.wim
In the Boot Configuration Data, rather noticeable is the fact that the "Windows Legacy OS Loader" is gone after using "Windows Recovery Environment" and that "Windows Boot Loader" has now two entries instead of a single one. But I am still booting to the same black and white screen of the "Windows boot manager", where the choice of the Legacy OS has been replaced by Windows Recovery.
The problem remains, it's just not booting directly to Windows 7.
Is this a case where BOOTSECT.EXE should be used or has been used already by Windows Recovery without me knowing? I searched my HDD and couldn't find BOOTSECT.EXE anywhere, and yet it is there in the \boot directory of the Windows 7 DVD.
So, should I use BOOTSECT.EXE?
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