Dual Boot W8 and W7

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Brian K
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Re: Dual Boot W8 and W7

Post by Brian K »

It probably is missing as it was in the Partition 2 which you formatted. Run two repairs as outlined in the link you posted.
TeraByte Support
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Re: Dual Boot W8 and W7

Post by TeraByte Support »

that is control by the boot item.

At this point it appears your BCD for booting W7 was in a different
partition. So just install the BCD to that W7 partition.

"vyper" wrote in message news:5164@public.bootitbm...

There is one curious thing that I am seeing. In the Work With Partitions
window, when I click 'View MBR' I can only see the newly restored Windows 7
partition with the right label. And that is set as Active. Every other entry
is 0 0 0 0h 0 0 0, Without any labels or anything. So, I am guessing I
messed something up in the process.

But I did follow the above instructions diligently...

vyper
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Re: Dual Boot W8 and W7

Post by vyper »

I am going to use all caps for the following:
THANKS A TON!!! IT WORKS! I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY SET THIS UP WITH YOU PEOPLE'S HELP.
and I even checked to see that the system restore points are working in Windows 8. I should be all set with this now. Amazing program.
mjnelson99
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Re: Dual Boot W8 and W7

Post by mjnelson99 »

Personally, I much prefer a full image backup to using
Window's Restore Points. They can take up LOTS of disk space
over time as well.

This can be accomplished using BIBM.
Mary

On 4/6/2013 2:33 PM, vyper wrote:
> I am going to use all caps for the following:
> THANKS A TON!!! IT WORKS! I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY SET THIS UP WITH YOU PEOPLE'S HELP.
> and I even checked to see that the system restore points are working in Windows 8. I should be all set with this now. Amazing program.
>
>
vyper
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Re: Dual Boot W8 and W7

Post by vyper »

Of course there is no denying that image backup is by far superior. I do, as I mentioned above in this thread, also maintain image backups for my system.

mjnelson99 wrote:
> Personally, I much prefer a full image backup to using
> Window's Restore Points. They can take up LOTS of disk space
> over time as well.
>
> This can be accomplished using BIBM.
> Mary
>
> On 4/6/2013 2:33 PM, vyper wrote:
> > I am going to use all caps for the following:
> > THANKS A TON!!! IT WORKS! I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY SET THIS UP WITH YOU
> PEOPLE'S HELP.
> > and I even checked to see that the system restore points are working in
> Windows 8. I should be all set with this now. Amazing program.
> >
> >
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