help can't boot to windows 7 after reinstalling Vista for dual boot

Apollo 13 · 06-28-09, 04:19 PM

Had vista 64bit on another drive and Windows 7 on my main drive, but formated my 64bit vista drive and installed the 32bit version because of software issues. Now Windows 7 isn't showing up anymore because of this.

**nekrosoft13** · 06-28-09, 04:25 PM

yes, because the bootloader was on the primary partition aka vista drive.

try this
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/.../EasyBCD.shtml

it might be able to detect win7 partition, and add the info to bootloader.

Apollo 13 · 06-28-09, 04:28 PM

lol I just remembered I ran into this problem before and made a post here about it. Thx for the help anyways.

Mr Bigman · 06-28-09, 04:47 PM

I noticed that too.

The bootmgr likes ot move around from drive to drive and when you format that drive its gone.

I had an issue with a setup where i had the sata raid on sata ports 4 and 5 and the sotrage dirve on sata 0 and 1 and it put the bootmgr on sata drive 0 instead of the os drive which i don't why it would do that since the OS is intact on sata ports 4 and 5.

06-28-09, 04:19 PM	#1
Apollo 13 The Man Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Toledo, Ohio Posts: 324	help can't boot to windows 7 after reinstalling Vista for dual boot Had vista 64bit on another drive and Windows 7 on my main drive, but formated my 64bit vista drive and installed the 32bit version because of software issues. Now Windows 7 isn't showing up anymore because of this. __________________ Core 2 Duo E6600@ 3.4Ghz 300Gb Harddrive EVGA 8800GT not overclocked 2GB G.skill DDR2 800 19'' Benq FP91G+ Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Operating System: Vista Ultimate

06-28-09, 04:25 PM	#2
nekrosoft13 I'm Geralt Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Chicagoland, once a year in Poland Posts: 24,364	Re: help can't boot to windows 7 after reinstalling Vista for dual boot yes, because the bootloader was on the primary partition aka vista drive. try this http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/.../EasyBCD.shtml it might be able to detect win7 partition, and add the info to bootloader. __________________ Windows 8 the next big failure, right after Windows ME

06-28-09, 04:28 PM	#3
Apollo 13 The Man Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Toledo, Ohio Posts: 324	Re: help can't boot to windows 7 after reinstalling Vista for dual boot lol I just remembered I ran into this problem before and made a post here about it. Thx for the help anyways. __________________ Core 2 Duo E6600@ 3.4Ghz 300Gb Harddrive EVGA 8800GT not overclocked 2GB G.skill DDR2 800 19'' Benq FP91G+ Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Operating System: Vista Ultimate

06-28-09, 04:47 PM	#4
Mr Bigman Strongest Man On Earth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Chicago IL Posts: 4,948	Re: help can't boot to windows 7 after reinstalling Vista for dual boot I noticed that too. The bootmgr likes ot move around from drive to drive and when you format that drive its gone. I had an issue with a setup where i had the sata raid on sata ports 4 and 5 and the sotrage dirve on sata 0 and 1 and it put the bootmgr on sata drive 0 instead of the os drive which i don't why it would do that since the OS is intact on sata ports 4 and 5. __________________ EVGA X58 Tri SLI Core I 7 3.7Ghz 12 gb corsair DDR3 1600 Three EVGA 285 SLI Antec 1200 Corsiar 1000 HX Power Supply 2 OCZ SSD Hard Drives 4 wd black edition raid 2 setups for 4TB _____________________________ having good looks and a good body is hard work.