bcdedit

Well,first of all I d like to congratulate the people who startd this forum. It trully is a wealthy source of information on many many subjects! :) My situation is as follows. Windows 7 Ultimate x64 installed on a new drive I bought recently.Run setup from scratch.Re installed OS ( C: )...

Hi, i recently upgraded from windows XP Professional, to windows 7 home professional x64. When i upgraded to service pack 3 on xp, it gave me some authentication issues. Now when i boot my computer it gives me 2 boot options being: Windows 7 Microsoft Windows XP Professional Setup I have tried...

We have 32-bit Windows 7 Enterprise deployed in our environment. We also utilize a full disk encryption solution whose kernel disables USB input during the boot process. When an end user experiences a startup issue (for example, we repair a boot\bcd issue), their PC will boot as far as the...

Hi there! I am running Windows 7 home premium 64bit. When the notebook boots up, I get two options: Windows XP Pro 64bit 2003 setup and/or Windows 7. How I could remove the unwanted Windows XP boot? which is the {identifier} of Windows XP Pro 64bit 2003 that I should delete? in MS-DOS...

ok, so..... a guy that recently did a reinstall and included Ubuntu. now i have TWO boot loaders to deal with: 1. Grub (the linux one) and 2. windows boot loader so i have to select "windows 7" in the linux one, then it goes to the windows one where i select "windows 7" again. this is very...

Last Thursday I tried removing my Ubuntu partition on my hard drive (I gave the partition 200 out of 500gb rather foolishly and I wanted the space back instead of buying a new hard drive), but failed to reconfigure the boot loader correctly. I ended up with a 500gb drive with about 200gb of...

My build: Intel core i5 2500k ASUS P67P8 Pro MOBO F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL G.Skill 2x4gb CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1 So I put the computer together and attempted to install Windows 7 home premium 64. I got the same error over and over again than fixed it by changing ram positions and was able to install...

I'm changing computers with different OS, windows xp Home to Windows 7 . I need to put a string into the BCDedit to change my boot at startup. In Windows xp I had in the boot.ini I was running a program with msaccess ver 7.0 2001 I can't start the program in windows 7 I get out of Memory error...

I'm changing computers with different OS, windows xp Home to Windows 7 . I need to put a string into the BCDedit to change my boot at startup. In Windows xp I had in the boot.ini [boot loader]| timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\Windows [operating systems]...

A while back I used Partition Magic Pro v7 (the last good one) to change some setting on my system drive. Surprisingly it worked (originally designed for win2K), but the problem is that it doesn't think that it worked. Now every time my computer boots it tries running the partition magic...

I have Windows 7 Pro installed on a brand new 1 TB HDD, itself in a new system which contains old HDDs. My homemade Tyan Tiger server/ workstation works it seems but for one important detail: it boots to the black and white screen of the "Windows boot manager". Only when I pick Windows 7 from...

Hello im hoping someone can help me. I was cloning a Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit install HDD on my HP Laptop and when it was done i removed the usb without safley removing it in the system tray. Now when i boot up (with the original HDD) i get an error: Windows failed to start. A Recent hardware or...

Sometimes, after using start-up repair, restoring from back, etc, the Windows 7 boot screen may change to the default Vista progress bar.. Fortunately, there is a very easy solution. Firstly, open Command Prompt as an admin. Now type bcdedit /set {current} locale en-CA (where en-CA) is your...

Hello, My computer contracted the AntiMalware Doctor/Spyware Suite trojan several days ago. I was able to remove the majority of it, but upon booting AND connecting to the internet I would receive the following message: "Windows has encounterd a critical error and will restart in 1 minute."...

Hi All, I have a single 500GB SATA HDD in my computer. (Rest of the specs are : 24x HP SATA DVD R/W, Intel C2D E7500 processor, Intel DG41RQI MoBo, Kingston 800 MHz 2GB RAM). When I first setup my hard-drive, I first installed "Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit" on D: drive then "Windows 7...

I have Windows 2003 installed in C and Win XP in D......Then I formatted C and installed Windows 7, but after that I am not able to boot Win XP...... I have tried BCDEDIT & EasyBCD but didnt work for me..... And later I realized there are no files in D to boot Win XP( ie, boot.ini, ntldr...

Hello there, my bootmgr and my Boot folder is on my partition where I use to save my files for a format...They are on F:/ How can I move them to C:/ (Primary System partition)? (BCDEDIT can do that?) Will it be better to move them to C:/ or not? what if I format C:/? they will still stay in...

I can display my BCD with: bcdedit /enum /store c:\boot\bcd But then how do I edit that file, or better still, how do I get bcdedit.exe to find it without specifying the location?

Hi, I recently installed Windows 7 home premium 64-bits. I upgraded it from a Windows vista business 32-bits. That was not trivial, but it worked fine. Problems came when a driver "classpnp.sys" made the system halt. Repair programs did not work until I copied another file over the driver and a...

Okay I have done so many steps on BCDEDIT and Bootrec and Bootsect that i just dont know what ive done now ... Okay at first my computer didnt boot up (WINDOWS 7) because Bootmgr was failing and it happens to me a lot since i mess with the inside of my computer on a daily basis with other...