Yesterday one of my friend called me and asked me that how to repair windows boot loader? I asked few questions and found that he was actually trying to install windows XP with windows 7 and the scenario was something like this. He first installed windows 7 and then installed windows XP and was not able to get the operating system option at startup.
At this point I told him to remember one thing that newer operating system knows older operating systems and can recognize that there is an older operating system installed on this computer but an older operating system don’t have any idea about the newer operating system.
The solution to this problem is very simple and easy. You just need to edit few entries in your boot loader and you will be working like charm but how can you edit your boot loader without creating any further problem for you? solution is given as under:
EasyBCD is a a great tool to do this kind of tasks without creating any further problem for the user and its really very easy to use. Setting up and configuring a dual-boot between Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP & 2003, Linux, Ubuntu, BSD, and Mac OS X is a just a matter of seconds. You just need to point, click and EasyBCD will do the rest. Its absolutely 100% free. EasyBCD can perform anything with your boot loader like under given:
- Boot into XP/Vista/7/Ubuntu/OS X
- Boot from USB, Network, ISO images, Virtual Hard disks (VHD), WinPE, and more!
- Repair the Windows boot loader, change your boot drive, create a bootable USB, and more!
- Rename entries, set default boot target, change BCD timeout, hide the boot menu, and more!
- Create your own custom boot sequence, hide drives on boot, backup and restore configurations, and more!
