Welcome to Vista Banter. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions, articles and access our other FREE features. By joining our free community you will have access to ask questions and reply to others posts, upload your own photos and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact support. |
|
Installation and Setup of Vista Installation problems and questions using Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup) |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
|||
Dual Boot Windows 7
I have Vista and Win 7 dual boot from 2 HDD's. I would get the black and
white screen that let me choose which I wanted to boot. I had to reinstall W7 and now that option is no longer their. I booted from the W7 update DVD and when I got to the part of selecting the partion I chose the one that did have 7 on it and formatted it then installed it. Why am I no longer given the dual option and is thier anyway to get it back? I have checked and my files for Vista are all still there. |
|
|||
Dual Boot Windows 7
Hi, J.
At the time you ran Win7 Setup.exe again, which HDD was designated in your BIOS as the boot device? THAT HDD is where you should find Win7's startup files. Windows Setup.exe puts the \Windows folder tree into the partition where we tell it to "install" Windows. That is, \Windows\system32, and all the many GB of other files and folders that comprise the operating system. But it puts the startup files, including the POINTER to that folder, into the System Partition, which is the Active primary partition on the designated boot device at the time Setup is run. In the typical computer, everything is in good ol' Drive C: on the only hard drive. But in a multi-drive multi-boot computer, the System Volume and the Boot Volume are often separate. So, for example, if your first HDD was disconnected when you were doing the new install, both the operating system and the new startup files would have been written to the second HDD. And if the disconnected HDD was where Vista was installed, then Win7 Setup would not know about Vista and would not provide for it in the opening menu. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "J" wrote in message ... I have Vista and Win 7 dual boot from 2 HDD's. I would get the black and white screen that let me choose which I wanted to boot. I had to reinstall W7 and now that option is no longer their. I booted from the W7 update DVD and when I got to the part of selecting the partion I chose the one that did have 7 on it and formatted it then installed it. Why am I no longer given the dual option and is thier anyway to get it back? I have checked and my files for Vista are all still there. |
|
|||
Dual Boot Windows 7
Hi, J.
At the time you ran Win7 Setup.exe again, which HDD was designated in your BIOS as the boot device? THAT HDD is where you should find Win7's startup files. Windows Setup.exe puts the \Windows folder tree into the partition where we tell it to "install" Windows. That is, \Windows\system32, and all the many GB of other files and folders that comprise the operating system. But it puts the startup files, including the POINTER to that folder, into the System Partition, which is the Active primary partition on the designated boot device at the time Setup is run. In the typical computer, everything is in good ol' Drive C: on the only hard drive. But in a multi-drive multi-boot computer, the System Volume and the Boot Volume are often separate. So, for example, if your first HDD was disconnected when you were doing the new install, both the operating system and the new startup files would have been written to the second HDD. And if the disconnected HDD was where Vista was installed, then Win7 Setup would not know about Vista and would not provide for it in the opening menu. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64 "J" wrote in message ... I have Vista and Win 7 dual boot from 2 HDD's. I would get the black and white screen that let me choose which I wanted to boot. I had to reinstall W7 and now that option is no longer their. I booted from the W7 update DVD and when I got to the part of selecting the partion I chose the one that did have 7 on it and formatted it then installed it. Why am I no longer given the dual option and is thier anyway to get it back? I have checked and my files for Vista are all still there. |
|
|||
Dual Boot Windows 7
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:22:01 -0800, J
wrote: I have Vista and Win 7 dual boot from 2 HDD's. I would get the black and white screen that let me choose which I wanted to boot. I had to reinstall W7 and now that option is no longer their. I booted from the W7 update DVD and when I got to the part of selecting the partion I chose the one that did have 7 on it and formatted it then installed it. Why am I no longer given the dual option and is thier anyway to get it back? I have checked and my files for Vista are all still there. You probably deleted the BCD (boot configuration data) when you formatted the disk. Boot from the Windows 7 DVD, and run startup repair. It should detect the Vista installation, and let you add it to the BCD. |
|
|||
Dual Boot Windows 7
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:22:01 -0800, J
wrote: I have Vista and Win 7 dual boot from 2 HDD's. I would get the black and white screen that let me choose which I wanted to boot. I had to reinstall W7 and now that option is no longer their. I booted from the W7 update DVD and when I got to the part of selecting the partion I chose the one that did have 7 on it and formatted it then installed it. Why am I no longer given the dual option and is thier anyway to get it back? I have checked and my files for Vista are all still there. You probably deleted the BCD (boot configuration data) when you formatted the disk. Boot from the Windows 7 DVD, and run startup repair. It should detect the Vista installation, and let you add it to the BCD. |