MrMatt
Member
I'm in a bit of a pickle here,
before i start let me say this might be abit confusing,
Right so i have two hdd's:
hard drive one - windows 7 C:
hard drvie two - windows 8.1 E:
Okay so i am a PC gamer that is quite compitent with computers but i can't fix this at all, i have had windows 7 on one hard drive for about a year now , this hard drive is two hdd's connected with raid 1tb storage, this has worked fine untill now.
so last week i baught a seagate 2tb harddrive and installed my free student edition windows 8.1 on it and then dual booted this workedreally well for about a week or so and then it messed up. i used a program to pick which os i wanted to use everytime i booted up and i think this is where the problem began because i set it so that everytime it booted from my seagate hdd it asked me windows 8.1 or windows 7 which worked great, then i went to install some updates on windows 8.1 and then every time it restarted it defaulted to the old windows 7 hdd , so i had to F12 boot order untill the updates where ready, to stop this i installed the same piece of software onto the old winodws 7 hdd and it would not boot windows 8.1 from it
Now when i turn my computer on the C: with my windows boots but the only option i have is windows 8.1 so i can only boot from the seagate hdd with windows 8.1 on but i can only boot up the windows 7 which is on the other hdd ;( so i can't aaccess the windows 8.1 or go into the seagat hard drive once windows 7is opend and logged in.
when i go into computer i have two options which is
os - 480 - 912 gb remaining (this is the working windows 7 )
seagate2tb - NTFS file (this is the windows 8.1) - now this wont let me into the hard drive it says i do not have access.
Does any one know how to solve this so i can make windows 7 boot onto the C: drive instead of going through the E: drive and the E: only booting windows 8.1 PLEASE PLEASE help me i am stuck beyond belief
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here is a diagram hope it helps
[ Hard drive one (windows 7) C: ] - - - - when booting defaultly ------- asks if i want to boot windows 8.1 ONLY ---- will not go further [ windows 7 ]
[ Hard drive two (windows 8.1) E: ] - when manually set to boot - asks if i want to boot windows 7 ( opens windows 7 okay , runs file scan everytime) and it also asks to boot into windows 8.1 wont work ?
both hard drives are fine but i can't access windows 8.1 , but i can't reformat it because then i would not be able to get into windows 7 because of the C: drive asking to boot windows 8.1 all the time ? even though i can't find where i ask for that boot.
The big question is how can i override this Easy BCD boot just so i can boot into each windows and see what the internal problem is because i think it is just this software and the way i have programmed it. I believe all my hdd's are fine and working correctly just i have the boots all wrong , now this is the first time i have tried doing this so please be gental
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before i start let me say this might be abit confusing,
Right so i have two hdd's:
hard drive one - windows 7 C:
hard drvie two - windows 8.1 E:
Okay so i am a PC gamer that is quite compitent with computers but i can't fix this at all, i have had windows 7 on one hard drive for about a year now , this hard drive is two hdd's connected with raid 1tb storage, this has worked fine untill now.
so last week i baught a seagate 2tb harddrive and installed my free student edition windows 8.1 on it and then dual booted this workedreally well for about a week or so and then it messed up. i used a program to pick which os i wanted to use everytime i booted up and i think this is where the problem began because i set it so that everytime it booted from my seagate hdd it asked me windows 8.1 or windows 7 which worked great, then i went to install some updates on windows 8.1 and then every time it restarted it defaulted to the old windows 7 hdd , so i had to F12 boot order untill the updates where ready, to stop this i installed the same piece of software onto the old winodws 7 hdd and it would not boot windows 8.1 from it
Now when i turn my computer on the C: with my windows boots but the only option i have is windows 8.1 so i can only boot from the seagate hdd with windows 8.1 on but i can only boot up the windows 7 which is on the other hdd ;( so i can't aaccess the windows 8.1 or go into the seagat hard drive once windows 7is opend and logged in.
when i go into computer i have two options which is
os - 480 - 912 gb remaining (this is the working windows 7 )
seagate2tb - NTFS file (this is the windows 8.1) - now this wont let me into the hard drive it says i do not have access.
Does any one know how to solve this so i can make windows 7 boot onto the C: drive instead of going through the E: drive and the E: only booting windows 8.1 PLEASE PLEASE help me i am stuck beyond belief
---------- Post added at 02:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:30 PM ----------
here is a diagram hope it helps
[ Hard drive one (windows 7) C: ] - - - - when booting defaultly ------- asks if i want to boot windows 8.1 ONLY ---- will not go further [ windows 7 ]
[ Hard drive two (windows 8.1) E: ] - when manually set to boot - asks if i want to boot windows 7 ( opens windows 7 okay , runs file scan everytime) and it also asks to boot into windows 8.1 wont work ?
both hard drives are fine but i can't access windows 8.1 , but i can't reformat it because then i would not be able to get into windows 7 because of the C: drive asking to boot windows 8.1 all the time ? even though i can't find where i ask for that boot.
The big question is how can i override this Easy BCD boot just so i can boot into each windows and see what the internal problem is because i think it is just this software and the way i have programmed it. I believe all my hdd's are fine and working correctly just i have the boots all wrong , now this is the first time i have tried doing this so please be gental
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