I have two copies of Windows 7 on my computer. It's an Apple Mac and the only primary partition is my OS-X partition. Neither of the Windows partitions is a primary partition. They're both logical drives in an extended partition. When I first partitioned the disk this way (around 2 years ago) I installed EasyBCD on one of the Win7 partitions and I set everything up so I could choose which version of Windows to run using a boot time menu.
I back up my partitions regularly although I've never needed to restore a full partition until today (when I needed to replace the partition that contains EasyBCD). Of course, I hadn't taken into account that the restored partition would be given a new UID and therefore initially, I couldn't boot into it. Fortunately, I could still boot into the other Win7 partition and I was able to mount the newly restored (EasyBCD) partition as a temporary drive and then run EasyBCD.
After all this, I've now got my boot menu back and I can boot into either version of Windows. The only strange thing is that EasyBCD can no longer make changes to my boot menu. For example if I rename either of the menu entries and perform a 'Save', the new names don't have any effect. I still see the old names when I re-boot.
If this makes any sense, can anyone suggest what might have gone wrong?
Addendum
After experimenting with bcdedit I think I've condluded that neither EasyBCD nor bcdedit can access my system BCD store any more. I don't know where the system store is normally located but I guess it must be present because I see a boot menu when I start Windows and both the entries seem to work. I just can't edit them any more. Does that give any clues as to what's wrong?
I back up my partitions regularly although I've never needed to restore a full partition until today (when I needed to replace the partition that contains EasyBCD). Of course, I hadn't taken into account that the restored partition would be given a new UID and therefore initially, I couldn't boot into it. Fortunately, I could still boot into the other Win7 partition and I was able to mount the newly restored (EasyBCD) partition as a temporary drive and then run EasyBCD.
After all this, I've now got my boot menu back and I can boot into either version of Windows. The only strange thing is that EasyBCD can no longer make changes to my boot menu. For example if I rename either of the menu entries and perform a 'Save', the new names don't have any effect. I still see the old names when I re-boot.
If this makes any sense, can anyone suggest what might have gone wrong?
Addendum
After experimenting with bcdedit I think I've condluded that neither EasyBCD nor bcdedit can access my system BCD store any more. I don't know where the system store is normally located but I guess it must be present because I see a boot menu when I start Windows and both the entries seem to work. I just can't edit them any more. Does that give any clues as to what's wrong?
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