edit MBR
Hi there i just installed Win7 to dual boot alongside vista, problem is the MBR doesnt have an option to boot vista even though i have checked and the Vista partition is still there any ideas how to edit the MBR and add a line to be able to boot Vista again Thanks in advance P.
Hi there
i just installed Win7 to dual boot alongside vista, problem is the MBR doesnt have an option to boot vista even though i have checked and the Vista partition is still there
any ideas how to edit the MBR and add a line to be able to boot Vista again
Thanks in advance
P.S. if you could tell me what lines to add with Win7 as default booting OS i'd be greatfull
i just installed Win7 to dual boot alongside vista, problem is the MBR doesnt have an option to boot vista even though i have checked and the Vista partition is still there
any ideas how to edit the MBR and add a line to be able to boot Vista again
Thanks in advance
P.S. if you could tell me what lines to add with Win7 as default booting OS i'd be greatfull
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I have been given a link to download EasyBCD, I used it to edit the BCD (Boot Config Data store) which basically edited the MBR
now afer this i rebooted the PC and the boot menu did not show up (the delay time is 30 secs)
seems i have 2 MBR's (1 on each physical hard drive) even though both OS's are on the seperate partition, same physical HDD
now afer this i rebooted the PC and the boot menu did not show up (the delay time is 30 secs)
seems i have 2 MBR's (1 on each physical hard drive) even though both OS's are on the seperate partition, same physical HDD
If you open the cmd prompt and type in bcdedit it will provide the current boot manager information for you.
You can add a store by using the bcedit /create option but you need to find the partitions drive letter for Vista first.
If you open Drive Management under Adminstrative Tools you can easily see what letters are assigned to which drives.
You can add a store by using the bcedit /create option but you need to find the partitions drive letter for Vista first.
If you open Drive Management under Adminstrative Tools you can easily see what letters are assigned to which drives.
