problem dualboot vista and 7 winload.exe error

wallyinnc · 22 Oct 2009

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Milite777 · 23 Oct 2009

wallyinnc said:

This explains it: Donate Button
Milite, if you want to stay and help others, that is good retribution. And in the process you will learn a lot and have fun. Personal experience.

thanks, I will try to do this. But now I have another problem: now when I boot from the primary hard disk, the boot always stop to "verifying DMI Pool data..........." and I can only shutdown from the bottom on pc case. When I boot from dvd drive it start without any problem. And now? I don't think that is a seven problem because yesterday and today I use it and I haven't any problem. What do you advise to me?

EDIT: sorry I find the solution, the bios was configured wrong and it boot from second hard disk (why this? I don't touch it)

saadsalman · 07 May 2010

SIW2 said:

In Vista, open an elevated command prompt, Type( or copy and paste these if you like).

cd /d f:\windows\system32

then press enter

bcdboot f:\windows /s c:

then press enter.

Close command prompt.

Restart the pc.

Hi! I am having the same issue with me but a bit different scenario.. I was using Ubuntu 9.04 and Windwos 7 (64-bit) but then needed to have an older version of Windows. I installed vista (32-bit) on the spare partition I had, then reinstalled grub, and then copied the Boot directory from vista partition (C:) to windows 7 partition (D:) along with bootmgr and exported the BCD file too from vista. Now when I run Windows 7 I get the error "Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file" (and the file is windload.exe in system32 folder).

I tried what you said in the quoted post but got this error:
"This version of d:\Windows\System32\bcdboot.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."

Can you please guide how to solve this issue?

SIW2 · 07 May 2010

Extract bcdboot.exe file from this zip this and copy it into in Vista Windows\System32

bcdboot.zip

open an elevated command type:

bcdboot d:\windows /s c:

press enter.

Hope it helps.

saadsalman · 08 May 2010

SIW2 said:

Extract bcdboot.exe file from this zip this and copy it into in Vista Windows\System32

bcdboot.zip

open an elevated command type:

bcdboot d:\windows /s c:

press enter.

Hope it helps.

It worked! Thank you for taking out time to upload the file! :)

SIW2 · 08 May 2010

You're welcome.

Glad it worked for you.

HappyBoot · 05 Jul 2010

About same action to solve Win 7 and Vista dual Boot problem.
Vista was already installed, then I install successfuly cold Win7 on another H: Disk.
Then somedays after I dont know how, I got Boot signature error when booting Win7, no problem booting Vista.

The BootMgr was on c: Vista disk

I tried the Win7 rescue disk to restore BCD, dont work.
I remove the C: Vista disk.
Then restart with Win7 rescue DVD and restore BCD.
After this action a was able to Boot only Win7

Then attach C: Vista Disk
While on Win7

I renamed BootMgr of C:Vista to zzBootMgr
Then I used EasyBCD 1.7 (free program) to install the second Vista entry to BootMgr on H:Win7.
Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 - NeoSmart Technologies
Then delete C: zzBootmgr and Boot files

Then all was correct.

Thanks

Dave76 · 06 Jul 2010

Glad to hear you got it all sorted out.

EasyBCD is a great program.

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