Solved I now have two boot mgrs

[riffwraith]

Hi all

Just did an Acronis backup, and wound up with two boot managers in the list in my BIOS. Prolly b/c of this: (below)

I wouldn't mind so much, but...

1) The first one in the list in my BIOS is the "bad one", as I cant boot into windows straight up; I have to hit F2 and select the second one, and then I am fine. I dont see an option to move, or remove.

2) If I need to restore another image, this creates a problem.

Any ideas on what to do here? I might be able to do something while booted into Acronis, but I dont know what, and they no longer support this version..

Thanks in advance.

 

[SIW2]

Find out which one is live

at cmd prompt type: ( or copy and paste the line below)

REG QUERY HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control /v FirmwareBootDevice

then you could format or delete the other one

 

[riffwraith]

Thx!

It says:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(2)

I did a googley to try and figure out what's what there, but couldn't come up with anything, other than info on the boot.ini file, but I am pretty sure that was pre-Vista.

Also, I cant delete nor format either one; no r-click options are avail from disk mgmt.

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And here they are in Acronis (below)

I can format one of those, but have no idea which is which

 

[SIW2]

It tells you it is using rdisk 2 partition 2

ms default is

\EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI

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at admin cmd prompt

diskpart

lis dis

 

[riffwraith]

Here's lis dis (below)

That says disk 1 is my OS drive, which matches what disk mgmt says. Disk 2 is another drive that just has data on it.

So, I am confused.

 

[SIW2]

View attachment getbootdevice_x64.zip

 

[Volume Z]

You can't break an active System partition in diskpart. Run

delete partition override

on both. Or run bcdedit. Or msinfo32.

 

[riffwraith]

View attachment 423783

What is this telling me?

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You can't break an active System partition in diskpart. Run delete partition override on both. Or run bcdedit. Or msinfo32.

bcdedit - what is this telling me?

Run delete partition override on both - than how do I boot into Windows upon restart?

 

[Volume Z]

Run delete partition override on both - than how do I boot into Windows upon restart?

You do not actually delete both. You find out which one diskpart refuses to break.

 

[riffwraith]

AH - ok, that makes sense.

One final thing before I try... does diskpart see the disk numbering the same as computer mgmt? I am actually selecting disk 1 here, correct?

Furthermore - sysinfo has the three partitions labeled as 0, 1, 2 - I assume I try 0 and 1? --edit-- no, diskpart doesn't see 0 as being a parition

 

[Volume Z]

does diskpart see the disk numbering the same as computer mgmt? I am actually selecting disk 1 here, correct?

Yup. What is the output of

diskpart
select disk 1
list partition

?

 

[SIW2]

diskpart

sel dis 1

sel par 1

del par override

 

[riffwraith]

diskpart
sel dis 1
sel par 1
del par override

Got it - thx. Would never have known that from that screenshot I posted.

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Yup. What is the output of
diskpart
select disk 1
list partition
?

See below.

Problem solved; the above instruction set worked, and now I have one bmgr.

Thanks to you both!

 

[SIW2]

Got it - thx. Would never have known that from that screenshot I posted.