petesrteenb
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Dear NeoSmart members,
I am hoping you can help me in the mess I have been getting myself into...
In my enthusiasm to look into the new windows 7 ultimate 64-bit version I have recently installed it on my HDD (running in RAID 5) that already had windows XP professional and vista ultimate (both 64-bit) installed on separate partitions (~300 Gb each). After installing win7, it converted my bootmenu perfectly into a triple boot system. So far so good.
Because the 64-bit OS's seemed to cause a driver issue for one of my favourite applications I decided to remove the vista installation and replace it with a XP professional 32-bit version. After installation a completely new bootmenu appeared and windows 7 was no longer available. With easyBCD 1.7.2 I was able to restore the VISTA bootloader that returned my win7 entry.
However, the bootmenu is only working for win7 directly this time and looks as follows:
Win7
XP pro 64
XP pro 32
Win7 indeed starts windows 7, XP 32 causes a reboot and XP pro 64 gives me a second boot menu. This second menu is identical to the original bootmenu I had before I used easyBCD to restore the vista bootloader:
XP pro 32
XP pro 64
win7
The first two entries start the respective OS's and win7 in this menu causes a reboot.
I read on the internet (also this site) that the second bootmenu was to expected and that I can delete the rebooting entries in both bootmenus using easyBCD. However I would like to remove the second bootmenu alltogether and to get the entries activated in the first menu.
I have included the easyBCD settings below. The second bootmenu settings I could not find. (EDIT: I found it under "edit legacy entries" in easyBCD 2.0, attached below)
Thanks in advance for your advice and help!
Regards,
Peter
There are a total of 3 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader.
Bootloader Timeout: 3 seconds.
Default OS: Win7 64-bit
Entry #1
Name: Win7 64-bit
BCD ID: {default}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows
Entry #2
Name: XP professional 64-bit
BCD ID: {ab8194d4-2214-11de-ba2f-00235457de57}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NTLDR
Entry #3
Name: XP pro 32-bit
BCD ID: {ab8194d5-2214-11de-ba2f-00235457de57}
Drive: F:\
Bootloader Path: \NTLDR
EDIT: edit legacy entries information (second bootmenu)
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="XP Pro 32-bit" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /noexecute=alwaysoff
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP Pro 64-bit" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Win7" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF
How partitions are flagged is given in this screenshot:
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7105/systempartition.png
I am hoping you can help me in the mess I have been getting myself into...
In my enthusiasm to look into the new windows 7 ultimate 64-bit version I have recently installed it on my HDD (running in RAID 5) that already had windows XP professional and vista ultimate (both 64-bit) installed on separate partitions (~300 Gb each). After installing win7, it converted my bootmenu perfectly into a triple boot system. So far so good.
Because the 64-bit OS's seemed to cause a driver issue for one of my favourite applications I decided to remove the vista installation and replace it with a XP professional 32-bit version. After installation a completely new bootmenu appeared and windows 7 was no longer available. With easyBCD 1.7.2 I was able to restore the VISTA bootloader that returned my win7 entry.
However, the bootmenu is only working for win7 directly this time and looks as follows:
Win7
XP pro 64
XP pro 32
Win7 indeed starts windows 7, XP 32 causes a reboot and XP pro 64 gives me a second boot menu. This second menu is identical to the original bootmenu I had before I used easyBCD to restore the vista bootloader:
XP pro 32
XP pro 64
win7
The first two entries start the respective OS's and win7 in this menu causes a reboot.
I read on the internet (also this site) that the second bootmenu was to expected and that I can delete the rebooting entries in both bootmenus using easyBCD. However I would like to remove the second bootmenu alltogether and to get the entries activated in the first menu.
I have included the easyBCD settings below. The second bootmenu settings I could not find. (EDIT: I found it under "edit legacy entries" in easyBCD 2.0, attached below)
Thanks in advance for your advice and help!
Regards,
Peter
There are a total of 3 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader.
Bootloader Timeout: 3 seconds.
Default OS: Win7 64-bit
Entry #1
Name: Win7 64-bit
BCD ID: {default}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows
Entry #2
Name: XP professional 64-bit
BCD ID: {ab8194d4-2214-11de-ba2f-00235457de57}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NTLDR
Entry #3
Name: XP pro 32-bit
BCD ID: {ab8194d5-2214-11de-ba2f-00235457de57}
Drive: F:\
Bootloader Path: \NTLDR
EDIT: edit legacy entries information (second bootmenu)
[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="XP Pro 32-bit" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /noexecute=alwaysoff
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="XP Pro 64-bit" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Win7" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=ALWAYSOFF
How partitions are flagged is given in this screenshot:
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7105/systempartition.png
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