Windows 10: how to dual boot win 7 or 10

Hi,
Topgun is lurking so I'm sure he can help *Smile

 

This mb is not a uefi bios. it used to dual boot fine with easybcd, now it does not. I had not even used win10 much at all, today it refuses to work, i did nothing to win10, they however do silent updates, i think so. I made no bios config setting changes either. IMO, this is all on MS, their responsible.

 

Hi,
That is how you should be doing it anyway *Smile

 

then why does MS offer a windows boot manager? See it is just crippleware, works very limited, no effort or desire from them to do better, simply a philosophical mindset like why would you want to use anything other than win10. *Tongue

I can print instructions next to pc, and tell people how to boot win10 or win7. It is only me and my family, not a business.

 

Hi,
Well a lot of people use this instead of dual booting
Hyper-V virtualization - Setup and Use in Windows 10 Virtualization Tutorials

Boot manager is more for secure boot
It is a pain even for recovery usage
That message you posted I get that when booting to Macrium reflect recovery cd or flash media to create or restore a system image
I just have to cross my fingers and hit F8 again and hope the reflect recovery kicks in *Biggrin

 

Running virtual machines is interesting, have done that mostly vmware or virtualbox with linux as host and windows as guest os.

But see if your host os goes down, you cant run the VM. And if the hardware is not real good, the experience is not going to be as good as running native. Having win 7 and win 10 on separate bootable drives preserves the ability to keep an OS going if a drive fails. Then I can restore the failed os from a macrium image to a new drive.

 

Hi,
Yep vmware is popular too *Smile

I agree separate drives is preferred by me as well using all the hardware resources.
But that is mainly why I switched to a device that simplifies dual booting
Not sure how I lived without it so long *Biggrin

 

For me, the bios select a boot drive works ok, but many people dont want to view such a screen or cant think properly. I get a list of drives to boot from, 3 hard drives or a cdrom, or usb if it is plugged in. Lots of folks wont know which drive has what os. Of course select wrong one and it wont boot, or will boot the wrong os.

Seperate drives is a must have as well as images of the OS just because drives fail unexpectedly. And the piece of mind and preventing trials and tribulations and a lot of extra work to reinstall it all is worth a few dollars more for a reliable backup.

 

How come none suggested BCDBOOT??
Msconfig now shows both entries to boot in win7.

 

So do you have it like you want it now ?

 

Works fine. I fixed it with my own advice