hello,
i am hoping to find some help here.
i have been using EasyBCD for a while now with my two windows 7 disks to have the option to choose which OS to boot into. it has been working very well!
recently, i added another disk. i installed windows 10 on it with all other hard disks disconnected. i thought once i reconnect the other drives, boot from my main windows 7 disk, and add the windows 10 drive to EasyBCD, i would be good to go. windows 7 still boots fine. but trying to boot into windows 10, i get an error message with status 0xc0000428. having read up on the issue in this forum i found that apparently you can not boot into a newer version of windows.
there are suggestions to replace certain boot (?) files on the win 7 (primary) boot disk but that sounds like a delicate operation to me.
my question is if i can do the following without breaking anything: if i make the windows 10 disk my primary boot drive and install EasyBCD there, and then add the other two windows 7 there, will that work? or am i corrupting anything on the windows 7 boot disk?
i would undo the EasyBCD boot menu in windows 7 and get everything back to default and then go with the above option without worrying about it. Problem is, for some reason when i 'turn off' the boot menu in EasyBCD the boot menu still comes up. something must be messed up there...
any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks,
Denis
i am hoping to find some help here.
i have been using EasyBCD for a while now with my two windows 7 disks to have the option to choose which OS to boot into. it has been working very well!
recently, i added another disk. i installed windows 10 on it with all other hard disks disconnected. i thought once i reconnect the other drives, boot from my main windows 7 disk, and add the windows 10 drive to EasyBCD, i would be good to go. windows 7 still boots fine. but trying to boot into windows 10, i get an error message with status 0xc0000428. having read up on the issue in this forum i found that apparently you can not boot into a newer version of windows.
there are suggestions to replace certain boot (?) files on the win 7 (primary) boot disk but that sounds like a delicate operation to me.
my question is if i can do the following without breaking anything: if i make the windows 10 disk my primary boot drive and install EasyBCD there, and then add the other two windows 7 there, will that work? or am i corrupting anything on the windows 7 boot disk?
i would undo the EasyBCD boot menu in windows 7 and get everything back to default and then go with the above option without worrying about it. Problem is, for some reason when i 'turn off' the boot menu in EasyBCD the boot menu still comes up. something must be messed up there...
any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks,
Denis