Issue in dual OS in windows 7 Professional

I have windows 7 professional 32-bit in my laptop. I did a partition on my hard drive and I installed windows server 2008 in it as a dual OS. After the installation, when I restart my computer, it is not giving me option to select the available two OS and directly starting up windows server 2008. What can I do to get the options to select the available OS on system boot up?

I can only install it on win server 2008 right now, as it is the only option I have. Should I go ahead and install on win server 2008? Just installation of EasyBCD does the work or should I do some thing else?

konduruharish said:

I have windows 7 professional 32-bit in my laptop. I did a partition on my hard drive and I installed windows server 2008 in it as a dual OS. After the installation, when I restart my computer, it is not giving me option to select the available two OS and directly starting up windows server 2008. What can I do to get the options to select the available OS on system boot up?

When you are ready you can use either easybcd, or bcdedit to modify the boot loader. Here are the instructions for the later. BCDEDIT - How to Use

Let us know if you need help

Ken

In Easybcd, Click "Add New Entry"

Select Windows Vista/7 in the dropdown .

Type in any name you want to give the boot menu entry under "Name"

Select the partition 7 is installed in the "Drive" drop down

Click Add Entry.

zigzag3143 said:

When you are ready you can use either easybcd, or bcdedit to modify the boot loader. Here are the instructions for the later. BCDEDIT - How to Use

Let us know if you need help

Ken

I am sorry Ken. I am not sure what entry to modify using bcdedit. Can you please help me with little more elaborated steps? I have no knowledge regarding these issues.

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SIW2 said:

In Easybcd, Click "Add New Entry"

Select Windows Vista/7 in the dropdown .

Type in any name you want to give the boot menu entry under "Name"

Select the partition 7 is installed in the "Drive" drop down

Click Add Entry.

I can't see windows vista/7 option in "Add/Remove Entries=>Add new entry=>Type". I can see windows vista/Longhorn, windows NT/2k/xp/2k3 and windows 95/98/ME. What should I select in these?

Vista/LONGHORN will do fine

konduruharish said:

I can't see windows vista/7 option in "Add/Remove Entries=>Add new entry=>Type". I can see windows vista/Longhorn, windows NT/2k/xp/2k3 and windows 95/98/ME. What should I select in these?

You have to download Easy BCD 2.0 because that is the version that supports Windows 7. Because it is still a Beta (dont worry it as stable as the previous release) you have to download the program from the developers forum. You need to register before you can download.

EasyBCD 2.0 Beta Builds - The NeoSmart Forums

Edit: Sorry I didn't see SIW2 last post.