Dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 8

misteedi
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Dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 8

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How to dual boot windows 8 and windows 7? I installed windows 8 but then did something with windows 7 (i got the windows 7 bootloader back) but now i can't boot windows 8. I know i can set it to put windows 8 on it's default bootloader but i want the windows 7 one.

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viking33
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Re: Dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 8

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misteedi wrote:How to dual boot windows 8 and windows 7? I installed windows 8 but then did something with windows 7 (i got the windows 7 bootloader back) but now i can't boot windows 8. I know i can set it to put windows 8 on it's default bootloader but i want the windows 7 one.
Welcome to the Lounge!
I assume you have had Win7 installed and added Win8 using the "custom install."

An excellent utility tool for bootloader and bootloader management is EasyBCD. It has been updated to also support Windows8 and is very easy to use, ( hence the name?)
You can read about it and download it from here:

http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/E ... B8D3220B8B" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I have dual booted XP, & WIn 7 and 8 successfully in a triple boot mode.
Hopefully, this should solve your problem.
BOB
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