Hi
I had dual boot Win7 and Win10 working well, was staying in Win7 but system crashed a few times and on last time it would not boot.
The laptop has 3 primary partitios and two logical:
P1- Boot
P2-Win7
P3 -Win10
P4 - Data
P5 - Page
I did not put the boot partition in, it came with it and has some recovery files there so I did not nuke it.
First off it was was not booting or even showing an error.
This is a weakness of EasyBCD, if anything goes wrong and you can't get back into Windows you are screwed.
So first thing I did was have a look at the disk, all partitions except boot were gone, so I got those back quite easily with a partiton tool.
Now it will at least show the boot menu which suggests it is getting as far as easyBCD but if I select either Win7 or Win10 it will not boot either.
I looked on your site for some sort of EasyBCD recovery disk that could at least diagnose what the system is expecting and finding.
I found the Easy Recovery disk and remembered a work colleague had that so I took system to him, he ran it , it saw the Win7 partiton and did the automatic recovery, but still it will not boot.
Error has changed in that it is now not finding EasyBCD boot file instead of Windows one.
The files are there as far as I can see, it seems to me it has just got confused about the partition numbers, in the old boot,ini days this would have been simple to fix now we have BCD no so much.
I tried making WIn7 active and boot, made no difference,,so rolled back to boot partition as active and boot.
Has anyone got any advice, there must be a simple utility that allows one to track the boot order and perhaps edit it OUTSIDE WINDOWS??
I had dual boot Win7 and Win10 working well, was staying in Win7 but system crashed a few times and on last time it would not boot.
The laptop has 3 primary partitios and two logical:
P1- Boot
P2-Win7
P3 -Win10
P4 - Data
P5 - Page
I did not put the boot partition in, it came with it and has some recovery files there so I did not nuke it.
First off it was was not booting or even showing an error.
This is a weakness of EasyBCD, if anything goes wrong and you can't get back into Windows you are screwed.
So first thing I did was have a look at the disk, all partitions except boot were gone, so I got those back quite easily with a partiton tool.
Now it will at least show the boot menu which suggests it is getting as far as easyBCD but if I select either Win7 or Win10 it will not boot either.
I looked on your site for some sort of EasyBCD recovery disk that could at least diagnose what the system is expecting and finding.
I found the Easy Recovery disk and remembered a work colleague had that so I took system to him, he ran it , it saw the Win7 partiton and did the automatic recovery, but still it will not boot.
Error has changed in that it is now not finding EasyBCD boot file instead of Windows one.
The files are there as far as I can see, it seems to me it has just got confused about the partition numbers, in the old boot,ini days this would have been simple to fix now we have BCD no so much.
I tried making WIn7 active and boot, made no difference,,so rolled back to boot partition as active and boot.
Has anyone got any advice, there must be a simple utility that allows one to track the boot order and perhaps edit it OUTSIDE WINDOWS??