Windows 10: How to dual boot Windows 8/10 with Free Macrium Rescue.

With the paid version of Macrium. There is an option that allows you to create a dual boot environment with Macrium Recue disk. However, with the free version, this option is not available.

The advantage to dual boot with Macrium Rescue disk are as follows:

• If you own an old PC which does not have the Boot Menu available. You don't need to change the Boot Priority in the BIOS to boot from the Macrium Rescue disk (CD/USB)
• Save yourself a CD/USB for other use.
• Boot faster from the SSD/HD.
• Start up repair if your PC becomes unbootable.
• Macrium rescue disk does have its own "File Explorer" version so you can recover data using drag and drop from unbootable Windows partition.

Here's how:

• Create a folder called macrium under C: drive
• Copy everything from the Macrium Rescue disk to this folder (C:\macrium)
• Create a BAT file as shown below. You can use copy/paste to create a BAT file and save it as .bat extension.
  Code: @echo off echo Configuring Dual boot Macrium Recovery Environment bcdedit.exe /CREATE {ramdiskoptions} /d "Ramdisk Options" bcdedit.exe /SET {ramdiskoptions} ramdisksdidevice partition=C: bcdedit /set {ramdiskoptions} ramdisksdipath \macrium\boot\boot.sdi for /f "tokens=2 delims={}" %%g in ('bcdedit.exe /create /d "Macrium Recovery" /application osloader') do (set guid={%%g}) echo GUID = %guid% created !!! bcdedit /set %guid% device ramdisk=[c:]\macrium\sources\boot.wim,{ramdiskoptions} bcdedit /set %guid% osdevice ramdisk=[c:]\macrium\sources\boot.wim,{ramdiskoptions} bcdedit.exe /SET %guid% systemroot \windows REM use the next line for UEFI style installation bcdedit /set %guid% path \Windows\system32\winload.efi REM For MBR, use the next line bcdedit.exe /SET %guid% path \Windows\system32\winload.exe bcdedit.exe /SET %guid% winpe yes bcdedit.exe /SET %guid% detecthal yes bcdedit.exe /SET %guid% nx OptIn bcdedit /displayorder %guid% /addlast bcdedit /timeout 5 echo "Done... Reboot your PC" pause[/quote] NOTE: there's are 2 red lines in the code, one for the MBR type installation and the other for UEFI. Use only one line that applies to your Windows Installation type MBR/UEFI and remove the other.
• Save the current BCD: Open Admin command prompt and type: bcdedit /export myBCD
  and save this myBCD file to somewhere else.
• Right click on the BAT file and run as Admin
• Reboot. You should see the dual boot menu with the timeout set to 5.

To remove the dual boot environment:

• Open the Admin command prompt and type: bcdedit /import myBCD
• Delete the folder C:\macrium.

Hope this helps !!!

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Windows 10 boot bcd error 0xc000000e

I had this problem during updating windows 10 with major update on my desktop, no idea why.

The best and simplest solution for this Boot BCD problem:

I use Macrium free rescue disk to boot my desktop (it's windows PE). This software has an option to FIX windows boot. You need to install free Macrium on another PC in order to create a rescue disk to do restore. By the way, it's the BEST FREE backup software
and that saved my life several times with image backup. Thanks Macrium.

You don't need to type any dos command, it's done automatically.

Boot your problem pc with this rescue disk.

You need just to choose your system partition and click on "Fix windows boot" option , that's it.

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I retry windows 10 major update again, and that worked the second time!!!

 

Blue Screen Error 'PC/device needs to be repaired file:/BCD error code:0xc000000d'

Brittany,

I just fixed an error like that on a Dell Inspiron yesterday. The best and easiest tool for fixing this is to use Macrium Reflect's Rescue Media. It has a "Fix Windows Boot Problems" option. This is what you have to do:

1. Download the "free" version of Macrium Reflect from here:


Download Macrium Reflect Free

2. Install it on a working computer and create the Rescue Media (Create Rescue Media). Make sure you set it to use
Windows PE version 10. If it has not picked that, click the "Change PE Version" and select PE version 10. You can create the Rescue Media on either a CD or a USB Flash drive although a USB Flash drive would be better and you
only need a minimum of a 1GB drive.

3. Once the Rescue Media is created, you need to start your problem laptop with the Rescue Media connected to it and change where you are booting from. As soon as you press the power button on the laptop, continually press the "F12" key.
This will allow you to access the Boot Options screen to modify from where your laptop will boot. It should eventually give you a list of devices to boot from. Select the USB Flash drive which contains the Rescue Media. Use the keyboard arrow keys to get to
the correct line and then {Enter} to select it. Once selected, it should then boot into Macrium Reflect running off the USB drive.

4. Follow the instructions on this page (How to fix Windows Boot problems) to perform the repair.

Good luck,

JohnD

 

You`re missing 2 vital components, the Windows 8 and Windows 10 install material.

Or are we to assume that Windows 8 is installed already ?????

 

Not sure if I understand your question. As the title said, you must have Windows 8/10 installed before you can set up dual boot with Macrium.

 

Sorry, Your Title clearly states How to dual boot Windows 8/10 with Free Macrium Rescue.

It says nothing about having 8 and 10 already installed, there is no need for Macrium to create a dual boot of any Operating System *Smile

 

Again, it's true there's no need to create dual boot with Macrium. However, It is convenient when you have an old PC with legacy BIOS and you don't have a BOOT MENU available then each time you want to boot Macrium, you would have to go in the BIOS and change the boot order to boot from. In addition, it is faster and you don't have to carry USB/DVD rescue disk around. That's why they have this option available with the Paid Version of Macrium.

 

I have the paid Pro version of MR -- but to me, the important part of this thread is that it provides a way to add MR to the boot selection menu for the FREE version -- and that alone is worth having this thread.