I installed Windows 8 on both my home and work PC dual-booting with Windows 7. It was really easy to do and helped me get over the hump on learning Win8 while still having Win7 to work on. Now that I have eliminated Win7 from both PCs, I still have stuff to clean up in BCD on both PC’s.
At home, I have the Win8 partition (C:) set up as everything now…system, boot, active, etc. There is an empty partition (G:) that is a combination of the Recovery partition and the Win7 partition…removing this partition currently gives me an unbootable situation.
When I run bcdedit /enum /v … it has an entry for Bootmgr and says it is located on the G: drive. There is nothing on that partition anymore, least of all the Bootmgr. The PC boots up into Win8 just fine. Isn’t there some simple way to correct the BCD storefile so that it knows the bootmgr is on C:, which it is.
And then there is the work PC. The BCDedit entry appears mostly OK. There’s one mysterious boot loader entry that has the win8 partition address and just says “identifier”, but doesn’t have any other descriptions and doesn’t show up in the menu at all.
But I don’t see that entry I have at home claiming that the bootmgr is on a separate partition. Both PCs come up fine. I don’t know where that hibernate entry came from…I didn’t add it. It doesn’t show on the menu. So besides the general wreckage on my drives, I am wondering how to correct the BCD storefile at home to remove/correct that reference to the bootmgr being on another drive. It looks to me like dual-booting is something you want to think long and hard about doing. Easy to do, but hard to undo.
It sounds like all I had to do at home is let it go unbootable and then boot up the Win8 disk and go into repair mode to fix where it is booting from. Is that the only option?
Also, I’ve been using Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 to add more space to one partition and take from the other (my Win7 partion was on the left) as I was gradually moving applications over to Win8…the last time I did this (and I still have more space to recover), I got a list of minor errors on the win7 and win8 partitions…something to do with hard links. That doesn’t give me any warm fuzzy feelings. Everything is working fine, but I can’t help but wonder whether I have some corruption now. The Win7 partition no longer has an OS on it all.
Work BCD: (I can add the entry for home later)
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {323f4c97-53a5-11e2-b192-8707d0383f5b}
device partition=C:
path Windowssystem32winload.exe
description Windows 8
locale en-US
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
recoverysequence {323f4c98-53a5-11e2-b192-8707d0383f5b}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot Windows
resumeobject {323f4c96-53a5-11e2-b192-8707d0383f5b}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
quietboot No
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {323f4c98-53a5-11e2-b192-8707d0383f5b}
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {d28b0fe8-7163-11e2-bedc-d4bed9a07e54}
device partition=C:
path Windowssystem32winload.exe
description Windows 8 Safe Mode
locale en-US
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
recoverysequence {323f4c98-53a5-11e2-b192-8707d0383f5b}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot Windows
resumeobject {323f4c96-53a5-11e2-b192-8707d0383f5b}
nx OptIn
safeboot Minimal
bootmenupolicy Standard
quietboot No
Windows Boot Loader
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identifier {d28b0fe9-7163-11e2-bedc-d4bed9a07e54}
device partition=C:
path Windowssystem32winload.exe
description Windows 8 Save Networking
locale en-US
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
recoverysequence {323f4c98-53a5-11e2-b192-8707d0383f5b}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot Windows
resumeobject {323f4c96-53a5-11e2-b192-8707d0383f5b}
nx OptIn
safeboot Network
bootmenupolicy Standard
quietboot No
Resume from Hibernate
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identifier {323f4c96-53a5-11e2-b192-8707d0383f5b}
device partition=C:
path Windowssystem32winresume.exe
description Windows Resume Application
locale en-US
inherit {1afa9c49-16ab-4a5c-901b-212802da9460}
recoverysequence {323f4c98-53a5-11e2-b192-8707d0383f5b}
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
filedevice partition=C:
filepath hiberfil.sys
bootmenupolicy Standard
debugoptionenabled No
