Windows 10: Win10 cannot update due to failed dual boot install which changed the boot record and I...

Win10 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 1TB HDD.. In May 2022 I dual installed Linux Mint and got a GRUB menu to boot either Win10 or Mint from that time Win10 updates could not be installed. I used Mint terminal commands to change the boot order and put USB Memory on top followed by Win10 then Ubuntu. Result was I trashed my ability to boot into Mint but Win10 worked ok. I tried to fix Mint boot with bootrec etc and failed. I saved all my data. I found I not only could Win10 not update but certain newly installed software designed to repair the Win10 boot record like AOMEI would not open also Dosbox

:)

 

Win7 / Win10 dual boot only boots to Win10

Hi,

This can be due to the changes made on the Windows operating system. To fix this, we recommend to check the

steps posted by Andre Da Costa on how to restore missing dual boot menu.

Let us know how it goes after you've performed the steps.

 

Dual Boot?

I can help here iv had both i used partition magic to split my HDD and i installed vista on one and xp was already on the other only problem is id watch out if i were you for some reason vista does not like to dual boot iv seen this on a couple of my machines and my buddys. so step one have xp installed step 2 find a partitioner of your choice i dont know of any except partition magic and the one included on xp...only thing is i dont think the one on xp will even partition them...then pop in your vista DVD and select the drive of your choice....the only thing i can think of that causes vista to hate dual booting sooo much is that when their are 2 OS's installed xp uses its own prog to list them on boot well vista uses a totally diff boot loader than the previous os's and i think they conflict the problems i hade were the standard missing windows folder missing HAL.dll and the nt one dont remember the name.....that and after your done vista and boot into xp things didnt like to start correctly specially if you scan disk with vista.

 

Change dual boot Win10/Win7 to Win10/Win10(11)?

Hi. I have a PC which dual boots between Windows 10 and Windows 7. I now no longer need Windows 7 on the PC and want to change that O/S to Windows 10, with a view to 'upgrading' (?) to Windows 11. (I don't think I can go from Windows 7 straight to Windows 11, can I?). The current Windows 10 installation will remain as my default.

I originally created the dual boot using EasyBCD (and I then installed iReboot to switch between them). All works well. I note that there are still ways to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free: I can't, I think, just format the Windows 7 partition and reuse my licenced Win10 installation iso for this - even though it's on the same PC, my understanding is that only one instance per license is legal, even on the same PC? Sounds risky too to do it that way, in respect of the dual boot still working afterwards: updating my licensed Windows 7 installation seems to be the way to go.

I am very hesitant however simply to go into the Windows 7 O/S and upgrade it to Windows 10: will that somehow 'kill' my dual boot? Do I need to prepare this in EasyBCD somehow - or reconfigure EasyBCD after the upgrade? Or will EasyBCD recognise the change automatically? The goal, probably perfectly clear, is to replace the Win10/Win7 dual boot with a Win10 (same installation as current)/Win10 dual boot.. and probably upgrade the latter to Windows 11 at some stage soon.

It's some years since I created the dual boot system (which I definitely want to keep) and to be honest I have very little memory now of how it is done! Some reminders and info re. the above (is there a step-by-step tutorial for dummies somewhere?) would be really helpful.

Many thanks.