by sigi » Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:23 am
Brian K wrote:
> sigi, how is the project progressing?
I am sorry for reacting so late. I have been busy creating the full HDD backup by means of IFW, installing Win7 and LinuxMint to the SSD and understanding and recording the interrelationship and interaction between the Win, Lx and BIBM Boot Managers.
1. FULL BACKUP
I bought IFW, installed it on my Win8.1 and tried to create a full backup of the HDD. The third attempt succeeded and passed the validation. Thereafter I created the TBWinRE bootable DVD.
2. INSTALLING WIN7 AND LINUX ON THE SSD
I then successfully installed Win7 and LinuxMint on the SSD with Grub on the Lx root partition. As expected, Win7 hijacked the Win8 bootloader. I was not able to recover it with the WinRE DVD but the TBWinRE bootable DVD brought it back.
3. BOOT MANAGEMENT
3.1 With CSM Enabled and the HDD being the first in the boot sequence, the WINDOWS BOOT MANAGER shows up first, which offers the fully functional options to boot
WIN8.1 and WIN8 SAFE MODE.
3.2 If I then press ESC, the BIBM BOOT MENU appears, which I prepared to show the two boot items
WIN7 and LINUXMINT.
3.2.1 If I choose WIN7 it brings up the Windows Boot Manager again, this time with the fully functional boot options
WIN7 and WIN8.1
3.2.2 If I choose LINUX it boots into the LINUX GRUB MENU giving me a choice between
LINUXMINT and WIN8.
Here the item LINUXMINT is fully functional, whereas WIN8 leads back to the Windows Boot
Manager as in 3.2.1 above with the exception that here only WIN7 is fully functional. If I boot
WIN8.1 an error message appears stating that winload.exe is missing or corrupted and asking for
the Win8 DVD for correction. However, this can be avoided by pressing ESC, which restarts the
computer and leads directly to the situation in 3.1.
CONCLUSION
I AM ASKING TERABYTE SUPPORT FOR A STATEMENT AS TO WHETHER THEY WOULD UNDERTAKE TO PROVIDE ME WITH A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF THE HDD NOT SHOWING UP IN BIBM. (REMEMBER I HAVE ALREADY MADE A BIOS UPDATE)
IF THE ANSWER IS NEGATIVE, I WILL KEEP MY WIN8.1 ON THE GPT HDD AS IT IS. IN THIS CASE I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE FORUM FOR CORRECTION SUGGESTIONS TO THE SITUATION IN PARA 3.2 THAT WOULD LEAD TO A FULLY FUNCTIONAL WIN7 BOOT ITEM IN THE BIBM BOOT MENU.
Intel Core i3 540 | 2 SATA-HDD with 640 GB each | Win7 Pro x64