Can't Dualboot Seven, Vista;

[kebabbaro]

Hello everybody,

I installed Seven Beta on a dedicated partition in my laptop so that now my hard disk has the following partitions:
C=VistaOS default OEM Operating System
D=Data for documents, pictures, etc.
E=SevenOS Seven Beta

This is when I read my HD from Vista, but from inside Seven the partitions are like that:
C=SevenOS, D=Data, E=VistaOS

My problem is that I CANNOT boot Seven as there is no dual boot menu showing at all during boot time.

I downloaded BCDEdit and added a menu entry for Seven, but that did not work. Again, no dual boot menu showing at all.

So here's my question: how can I set up a dual boot process using the standard tool of Vista, for BCDEdit didn't work and at this very moment I cannot boot Seven?

Thanks a lot to the community.

Keb

 

[chinga69]

how did you read the hard drive allocations from seven

but from inside Seven the partitions are like that:
C=SevenOS, D=Data, E=VistaOS

 

[chinga69]

boot from the seven cd and do a repair start up option and you should get the boot menu

cheers brad

 

[kebabbaro]

how did you read the hard drive allocations from seven

but from inside Seven the partitions are like that:
C=SevenOS, D=Data, E=VistaOS

As I mentioned before, I tried to add a boot menu entry using BCDEdit and that didn't work. Besides, BCDEdit ruined my boot process so that after the "fix" not even Vista could boot.

Fortunately, I created a recovery.bsd file thru BCDEdit so I just had to run BCDEdit and restore the original boot sequence. Of course I had to be able to boot any version of Windows to do that, hence I clean-installed Seven once again.
Once inside Seven I had the opportunity to read the hard drive allocations.

KEB

 

[kebabbaro]

boot from the seven cd and do a repair start up option and you should get the boot menu

cheers brad

how exactly can I do that?

cheers

KEB

 

[ickymay]

how exactly can I do that?

cheers

KEB

repair startup is an option in the DVD boot menu and is kinda self explantory

 

[Dwarf]

Hi kebabbaro and welcome to Se7en Forums

Can you post back with the results of the bcdedit command so that we can see if we could help you with it. See http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2676-bcdedit-how-use.html for details. We need the information similar to that shown in the example.

 

[kebabbaro]

repair startup is an option in the DVD boot menu and is kinda self explantory

FIXED IT

I turned out to be a very easy problem to fix, thanx a lot ickymay and Dwarf

Now if I could make my modem work under Seven that'll be great, but I won't discuss that here...

Cheers

KEB