EasyBCD doesn't start

Hello everyone,

I am trying to dual boot Windows 8 and Windows XP 64-bit right now, with Windows 8 being my currently installed system.

After installing Windows XP, I followed instructions here: https://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=11639 to try to enable the Windows 8 graphical boot menu because I want it.

After executing the command bcdboot c:\windows, EasyBCD no longer starts. I knew I did a few other things, but I have no reasons why something else would have caused it.

I tried using cmd on admin privileges and navigated to the EasyBCD\bin directory and tried to execute BootGrabber.exe /tlist but UAC comes out to request permission, click yes, new cmd window appears and disappears promptly. Nothing happens.

I am happy to provide as many details as needed. Thanks in advance.
 
The CMD window itself must be launched with admin privileges. That will prevent the UAC popup which forces bootgrabber to be run in a new window.
 
The CMD window itself must be launched with admin privileges. That will prevent the UAC popup which forces bootgrabber to be run in a new window.

Hi Computer Guru, thanks for your tip. It worked. Here is the output from Bootgrabber.exe:

Code:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\

C:\>cd program files (x86)\neosmart technologies\easybcd\bin

C:\Program Files (x86)\NeoSmart Technologies\EasyBCD\bin>bootgrabber.exe /tlist

BootGrabber utility.
Copyright NeoSmart Technologies 2009-2011 <http://neosmart.net/>

WARN: Unable to get volume information for \\?\Volume{bd7ec18b-4c4a-11e2-bf6f-80
6e6f6e6963}\
WARN: No active partition detected on disk 1.
D0,2,2,0,240063086592,0
P1,,7,104857600,66945024,Yes,multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1),Yes,
P2,C:\,7,239956131840,4690264064,Yes,multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2),No,NTFS

D1,2,2,1,2000398934016,1
P1,E:\,7,1649267441664,483829608448,Yes,multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1),No,N
TFS
P0,,15,351112527360,0,Yes,,No,
P2,F:\,7,351112495104,340576514048,No,multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2),No,NTF
S

C:\Program Files (x86)\NeoSmart Technologies\EasyBCD\bin>


Here is the output from Bcdedit.exe:
Code:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier              {bootmgr}
device                  partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
path                    \bootmgr
description             Windows Boot Manager
integrityservices       Enable
default                 {current}
displayorder            {current}
timeout                 10

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier              {current}
device                  partition=C:
path                    \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description             Windows 8 Pro
locale                  en-US
recoverysequence        {6cc6726e-da3a-11e2-bfd0-e58ddaa6a455}
integrityservices       Enable
recoveryenabled         Yes
osdevice                partition=C:
systemroot              \Windows
resumeobject            {6f0cf194-d9b4-11e2-80c0-806e6f6e6963}
bootmenupolicy          Standard

C:\Windows\system32>

I have already tried using attempt three at https://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Windows+Bootloader+from+the+DVD to manually repair the bootloader. Windows 8 boots fine, but I still can't use EasyBCD.
 
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