Multiboot After Upgrade
I did an upgrade of Vista Ultimate to 7 Ultimate. After the upgrade, I now get a screen during boot asking if I want to boot to Win 7 or an earlier version of Windows. I have no earlier version installed, why am I suddenly getting this and how can I get rid of it?
November 1st, 2009 7:03am
Download and install EasyBCD (http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1), click Add/Remove entries, select the earlier version of windows entry, and press the delete button. Screenshot of process here
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November 1st, 2009 7:22am
The third party tool JoelbX provided is a good option to edit boot entry.Here is the default method to modify BCD entry. Just for reference.
Please go to Start --- Search box, input CMD. It will find "cmd.exe". Right click on it and choose Run as Administrator.
Now we got a DOS-like window. Please input "Bcdedit" and click Enter.
We will get a list. Let's notice the "Windows Boot Loader". It should be looked like this:
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {d2d918cf-8b0d-11de-8b0e-cb2e6be3a937}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {d2d918cd-8b0d-11de-8b0e-cb2e6be3a937}
nx OptIn
As the installation process still exists when boot the computer, we should find a second entry in "Windows Boot Loader". Please make sure which entry is the one we need to delete and write down the "resumeobject".
Then we can run following command to delete the boot entry:
Bcdedit /delete {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}
For example, we can run "Bcdedit /delete {d2d918cd-8b0d-11de-8b0e-cb2e6be3a937}" to delete the system I mentioned above.
Note: If we deleted the correct entry, we will fail to boot into Windows 7.
November 1st, 2009 8:46am