I did something and now I can't boot to Vista

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    Dual boot to Vista and Windows 7 Home Premium
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    I did something and now I can't boot to Vista


    I did something and now I can't boot to Vista. I am using EasyBCD and told it the default OS is Vista and it still boots to Win 7. Argggg....
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    Hi Mike,

    Please post a screenshot of Disk management window. Also the output of Easybcd View.
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    Dual boot to Vista and Windows 7 Home Premium
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    I removed the Win 7 drive and can now get into Vista, but there is no boot menu anymore. I restored Vista, and it didn't bring back the boot menu, even with the Win 7 disk installed.
    Here's screen shots. Yeah, I know, only one boot option.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails I did something and now I can't boot to Vista-bcd.jpg   I did something and now I can't boot to Vista-diskmgmt.jpg  
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    I think I saved something in EasyBCD to the W7 drive and it screwed the boot menu up. Doesn't matter what boot OS I choose, it still booted to 7. How can I fix it without installing 7 again?
    Last edited by Mike B; 24 Oct 2009 at 23:24.
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    I just saw your post - what is different from your screenshot and easybcd entries now?

    Post the screenshot and easybcd entry as they are now.

    Don't change anything after that - coz that is what I will be going on.
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    What I posted is what they are now.
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    So you can now only boot into Vista ?
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    To clarify things, there is no boot menu now, even with the Win 7 drive installed.
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    Yes, I can only boot into Vista.
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    You boot straight into Vista and that's it. Not surpised with only one bcd entry.

    Open an elevated command prompt and type: ( or copy and paste these)

    cd /d e:\windows\system32

    then press enter

    bcdboot e:\windows /s c:

    then press enter

    close cmd window.
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