I think I'm fairly smart and I've been using computers for over 30 years; and I've also read the EasyBCD manual several times. Yet for the life of me I simply cannot get EasyBCD to work after multiple efforts. I use separate drives for each OS, but in one box and with one MB. Yes I use CSM or legacy boot options. Yes I use GPT partitions. And yes, I've successfully installed EasyBCD 2.3 and can bring up the window with the option to add the various OS. But everything but the Windows tab is greyed out. I've tried installing Linux first followed by Windows, and the reverse. I've wasted much more time than I should have because I don't like to be beaten by a bloody machine. Hoping someone can rescue me from going stark raving bonkers!
BCD Win 11 and Linux
- Thread starter Iatros
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Thanks for the response Terry. I love the Spitfire, do you fly? Anyway at this time my machine consists of a Mag 550 Tomahawk MB, AMD Ryzen 7, Win 11 on a 1TB SSD, an Intel SSD logical drive, a Sandisk SSD logical drive, and a Seagate 'spinner' which I had formatted and partitioned as a Primary. My partitioning software confirms that each drive contains a primary partition, yet when I try to deploy EasyBCD 2.4 I get the following error message on all of them: "The partition must be primary. Please either select another drive or convert the selected partition to primary first... "
I've tried everything I can think of to resolve this, but nothing seems to work.
I've tried everything I can think of to resolve this, but nothing seems to work.
EasyBCD and UEFI
With the release of Windows 8 and Windows 10, many new computers are shipping with something known as the UEFI firmware and boot manager in place of the traditional BIOS and MBR approach to startin…
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Thank you for your reply Terry, but I assure you I've read that page and followed it's instructions many times. There is no solution that has worked for me. I've even flashed/updated my BIOS (recently) and that didn't help either. I should also mention that the page alludes to long since defunct versions of Windoze, up to Win 10; while I specified in my March 24th post that I'm using Win 11. There are differences, but I'm not sure if they're relevant to my current situation.
But I have at last found a ray of hope - one that doesn't include BCD or NeoSmart technologies. It's a multi OS boot loader called rEFInd open source from SourceForge: rEFInd On first installation with no hassle it worked like a charm. 'Nuff said eh?
LilianaWinslow
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Have you tried running EasyBCD as Administrator for elevated permissions?