Cbarnhorst
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I installed Windows 8 on the second partition of my second hard drive. Windows 8 Release Preview Setup did not set up a dual boot menu. In order to get back to Windows 7 I changed the BIOS Setup boot order. I installed EasyBCD on Windows 7 and added Windows 8 with EasyBCD. I get a proper dual boot menu but when I choose Windows 8 I get a screen stating that I have attempted to access an unsigned entry (or words to that effect). I found out what everybody here already knows, I can't set up a W7/W8 dual boot that works from Windows 7.
If I change the boot order back to boot into Windows 8 and then install Easy BCD will I be able to add Windows 7 and have the dual boot menu work? If the current stable version won't do it will the latest beta do it?
Addendum
Update: The answer to my question turns out to be install EasyBCD on Windows 8 so that it reads the Windows 8 boot data already on the drive and then add Windows 7. That produces the Windows 8 style multiboot selection screen that works. It does not work to install EasyBCD on Windows 7 and try to add Windows 8. But then all you guys already know this, right?
If I change the boot order back to boot into Windows 8 and then install Easy BCD will I be able to add Windows 7 and have the dual boot menu work? If the current stable version won't do it will the latest beta do it?
Addendum
Update: The answer to my question turns out to be install EasyBCD on Windows 8 so that it reads the Windows 8 boot data already on the drive and then add Windows 7. That produces the Windows 8 style multiboot selection screen that works. It does not work to install EasyBCD on Windows 7 and try to add Windows 8. But then all you guys already know this, right?
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