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From: shegeek72 on 12 Jan 2010 02:48
On Jan 10, 4:24 am, "SteveH" <steve.houghREM...(a)THISblueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:
> The 7 install should have created a boot menu.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

I tried EasyBCD 1.7.2 with no luck. Then tried iBoot 1.1.1 (made by
the same dev as EasyBCD) and it didn't work either. Perhaps because
Win7 isn't supported. However, EasyBCD did come in handy to run
bcdedit, as I got 'access denied' in Win7 when I tried to use the cmd
line, even though I'm logged on as administrator. EasyBCD was able to
access it, which I've copied it here.

> I use this:http://www.vistabootpro.org/which used to be free.

I'd still like to solve this without shelling out money since it
should've been created by win7. Until then I change the boot HD in the
BIOS to choose which OS to boot into.

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {d627774c-fdac-11de-ac96-86859ae8b8a9}
displayorder {current}
{d6277750-fdac-11de-ac96-86859ae8b8a9}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {d627774e-fdac-11de-ac96-86859ae8b8a9}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {d627774c-fdac-11de-ac96-86859ae8b8a9}
nx OptIn

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {d6277750-fdac-11de-ac96-86859ae8b8a9}
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows Vista
systemroot \Windows




From: shegeek72 on 12 Jan 2010 04:00
Problem solved!

I noticed that there were some *ah hem* missing entries in the boot
loader for Vista. So I used easyBCD to remove the Vista entries, then
used bcdedit in cmd prompt (had to right-click on command prompt and
select 'run as administrator') to create a new Vista boot loader
following the instructions here:
http://www.kombitz.com/2009/01/09/how-to-add-vista-to-windows-7-boot-manager/

I can now choose which OS in the boot menu!
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