by unclebump » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:38 pm
What's the best way to take a system with Win 7 x64, Vista x64, Win7 x86, all on one hard drive, and have the other partitions hidden while running each OS? I started with acronis OS selector, but got fed up with the constant mbr error 3 issues. Moved to paragon HDM 11 professional, but the boot manager won't hide the other OS. Now trying to use BIBM. I would like to keep the existing partitions and not have to reload everything. Win 7 took over the booting of each OS. Any time that I run startup repair, it puts all three in the BCD files. I delete the entries inside the partition work, bcd edit button, but they won't do a normal boot. I can double click in the direct boot menu and each system will boot. I have several partition and complete disk backups along the way. Should I put only one OS on a drive at a time and make them boot, image each one, then restore to a new drive? I tried on the direct boot menu, to make the other partitions hidden, and they still show up inside windows explorer, when I double click on an OS.