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No BCD menu after Win 7 install (Win XP already installed)
Hi,
I have an older AMD 4400+ system with some HD's laid out like you see in the attachment. Previously, I was just running the Windows XP x64 which is currently located on Disk 1, second partion (150GB). I also have an install of Linux on located on Disk 0, third partition (35GB), but I have not been using it since my GRUB install got messed up and I have no way to select that OS during boot-up.
Tonight I installed Windows 7 x64 (Custom Install), onto Disk 3. From what I read, during the install Windows 7 should have seen my other OS's and created a BCD menu for them during the install process. It did not. The situation I have now is that when I remove the Windows 7 install DVD from the DVD drive, Windows XP 64 boots up like it did before, but there's no option to boot Windows 7. If I have the Windows 7 install DVD in the DVD drive, then Windows 7 boots up normally, but with no option to boot any other OS.
Any idea how I can fix this without screwing up my Windows XP64 install? I know I can try the repair option with Windows 7 but I'm concerned that it will just overwrite the boot sector to just boot Windows 7 without taking into consideration the Windows XP64 install (which I can't afford to lose quite just yet.)
I tried running EasyBCD in Windows XP x64 as this OS boots up by default if no Win7 DVD is in the drive but it give me an error message stating:
EasyBCD has detected that your BCD boot data and MBR are either not from the latest version of Windows Vista, or don't yet exist.
If you'd like EasyBCD to correct these issues, press OK. This will modify the MBR and requires that you have Windows Vista installed on this machine.
Since I do not have Windows Vista I canceled.
Please advise.
Last edited by Omegaman007; 30 May 2010 at 23:56. Reason: removed difficult to read attachment