Wrong Partition!!!!?

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Thu, 16 May 2013, 02:32
spinal	Here's a problem, I installed the Windows 8 90 day trial to a new partition on my laptop, it boots fine, seems to work ok. But I can no longer boot Windows 7 on the thing because when I select it from the boot menu, it boots the recovery partition instead of the Windows partition. Anyone know how I can fix this? Can I add new boot menu items to the windows 7 boot menu (or 8 i guess) and test all partitions or something from within Windows 8? Should I risk doing a recovery? From what I remember the only recovery options that were available on this thing are full format.... Argh! -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!
Thu, 16 May 2013, 04:12
CodersRule	I'm not particularly experienced with the Windows bootloader... all I know is that it's really awkward to use. If you can't figure out how to add other partitions to the bootloader, you can always resort to installing GRUB or something (though you'll need a linux partition to store its data). Obviously that's not the ideal solution, but if you really need Win7 then that might be your best option. Keep looking for bootloader configuration, though. It must necessarily be stored somewhere in Windows 8, and if you can find something similar to Linux's /boot/grub/grub.cfg, you'll be able to do exactly what you need to do. edit: If you desperately need to use Windows 7 and are okay with overwriting 8's bootloader, see if you have a spare old Windows recovery CD lying around. I had to uninstall GRUB once and I used a Win98 recovery CD to get access to a command prompt from which I was able to fixmbr.
Thu, 16 May 2013, 04:28
spinal	i tried setting my windows 7 partition to active, it resulted in the machine not booting up. windows 8 lets you choose the default os to boot from, but both the windows 7 and 8 boot menu load the recovery partition when selecting Windows 7. Currently I am backing up my windows 7 partition, as according to the stupid HP recovery thingy I will loose everything if I do any sort of restore. -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!
Sat, 18 May 2013, 12:24
spinal	Bah, reinstalled both, they seem to be working now. But I have to go through the hours of uninstalling a million hp applications and other useless crap. -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!