windows 7 - Configure Boot Menu

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2014-07
  • Hossein Moradinia

    I Have Two Hard Disk Drive.In One Hard Disk Installed Windows Xp And In Other Hard Disk Installed Windows 7.I Want Install Two Hard Disk in One System And Configure This System For Boot Menu with Windows Xp And Windows 7.

    How can I Configure Boot Menu To Show with Two Choose (Windows Xp And Windows 7).Please Help me for This

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  • Mehper C. Palavuzlar

    If I understand correctly, what you want to do is to combine two OSes in one hard disk and be able to multi-boot from that disc. This requires partition move if you don't want to reinstall one of the OSes. You can use 3rd party programs like BootIt™ Next Generation which can do all the copying/sliding/resizing/imaging and any other partition work you ever need, and it includes its own bootloader which can boot any OS. It also allows you to easily boot multiple OSes from a single partition.

    As for an alternative solution, you can format one of the drives (let's say Drive D with Windows 7) and then reinstall that OS to Drive C for multi-booting. LifeHacker has a nice article explaining how to dual boot Windows 7 with XP.


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    How to make the Boot Menu to show Windows 7 and Windows 7 (64 bit)?
  • 動靜能量

    After installing Win7 32 bit and Win7 64 bit on 2 different partitions of the same computer, both show up as Windows 7 on the boot menu. So if I have 1 desktop and 1 notebook, I will have to remember which computer's top Windows 7 is the 32 bit and which one is 64 bit.

    Is the way to change the wording by modifying boot.ini using Notepad like before? Is there a better way to do it?

    To change the boot listing order, is that by the same way?

    To change the default OS to boot, I think it is to use msconfig (type that in the box after clicking on the Start / Win7 icon on task bar). Any other methods? thanks.


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  • 8088

    Use EasyBCD.

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    It will let you determine the boot order with a GUI, which helps a ton if you don't really know what the .ini files are about.

    Furthermore, it gives you the opportunity to backup your current boot order, so if you mess up (as in delete the wrong entries) you can easily restore.

    Note: messing with your boot order can do serious damage to your system!

  • DanO

    There is no longer a boot.ini that you could carefully edit to rename boot configurations or add boot parameters. It's now in a special store, and you have to use tools other than notepad to modify it.

    If you don't want a third party tool, use the built-in bcdedit.

    1. open an "Admin-enabled" command prompt.
    2. run bcdedit
    3. in the list that is displayed find the GUID identifier that corresponds to the partition where the 64 bit OS is installed. copy it into the clipboard.

    4. run (putting your GUID between the curly braces):

      bcdedit /set {abcdefg-4567-8912-1234-YourGUIDHERE} description "Windows 7 x64"

    5. repeat for the 32 bit install (no need to boot into it).

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