Windows 10: Boot Select Screen?

Mike, I'm having similar issues as you were, but no big deal to me. I find that on a cold boot, I boot straight into TP, but on a restart I get a boot menu screen. But, that is on a spare PC, which I intended to use mostly for TP anyway. On this PC I have it running in a VM.

 

Mine configured a Dual Boot with Win7 when installed to a second partition on SSD.

I would not add the other OS from both, but only from the default. It's good to know that EasyBCD is working for Win10 already

 

It must be magic because I didn't do anything and I get to select which system to use on cold boot and reboot.

All I did was have only a new ssd in hot swap; other drives disconnected.
Installed W-10. Shut down and hooked up the ssd with W-7 and booted.
At that point Windows did what ever because I get a selection on what system to boot from. If I don't select anything it boots to W-10.

Please note I keep my bios boot order to check for bootable things in USB, DVD and hot sway before booting into W-7. If it find something bootable in those places that is what it does without me selecting anything. That bios setting comes in quite handy and only adds 2 to 3 sec. to the normal boot.

 

The missing dual boot menu can happen if you had unplugged your other hard drive when you installed 10. If it can't see the other OS it won't setup the dual boot. I know most here know that, just a FYI post for the less tech savvy that may read this thread. Some will unplug the other drive so that they can't accidently install to the wrong drive or partition and mess things up. Then wonder why they can't easily boot to the other OS.

 

That's where using EasyBCD on both disks gives you boot menu which ever disk you use to boot from.

 

exacary

 

And by strange coincidink, indubitablblble

 

I understand that it shouldn't happen that way. That is why I called it magic.
The only thing I can figure is somehow it picked up the other operating system through the bios. I didn't think that was possible.
The way I describe the method I used is absolutely the way I did it. I can not explain how I ended up with a dual boot choice.

It might be but I can't be sure the reason is the way my boot order is set.
I set my boot order to check usb and cd/dve for bootables before booting into W-7. When it seen a bootable dvd before it seen W-7 the bios didn't see anything out of order.
As far as the bios was concerned W-7 was still there but the dvd beat it to the boot.

 

I installed Win 10TP with all the other drives unplugged. But it's easy to make boot selector. No need to install easybcd. I just plug in win 10 and win 7 SSDs, boot on my Macrium USB rescue media. Run "Fix boot menu", select which drive to be the default OS to boot from, click finish, restart, tadaaa....

 

Excellent *Wink

Unplugging any other drives is always the best method, and you`ve given everyone another method to create a boot screen.

 

Thanks!
And thanks for the rep, too.

I tried the EasyBCD method once before but it's kind of hit or miss sometimes. Sometimes it boots up straight without giving you a boot selector screen. The Macrium way I discovered works better so far.

Cheers!

 

Just have to make sure that default boot menu time is higher than zero. I keep mine at 5 seconds, enough time to react and not long enough to slow boot time appreciably. It could be changed thru msconfig later if missed.

 

I actually didn't change the delay time. It was at 30sec by default. I took it as an issue between Easybcd and 10. So I didn't bother going deeper with it. The easyfix I found works smoothly.