The think that broke it, toggled back to legacy, was deleting the last installed os partition, a time-limited win8 RTM, the install of which is what I did to reclaim the "Metro" style for the earlier-installed win8 shipping licensed RTM. Running bootsect.exe and bcdboot.exe however did, which idea I thank you for. setting device and osdevice did not either. I thought that yesterday morning but setting that value to standard did not bring back the style from the Interface Formerly Known as Metro, even though the same partition was system, active, primary, and default. IF YOU WANT TO EXECUTE ANOTHER BOOT MANAGER - YOU CHANGE ACTIVE PARTITION using a disk manager.
You seem not to understand that BCDEDIT DOES NOT CHANGE BOOT MANAGER.īOOT MANAGER IS ALWAYS ON ACTIVE PARTITION. you put the needed commands in a script file say "diskpart.txt" and then execute "diskpart /s diskpart.txt". I doubt I can write better documentation.įor changing active partition using diskpart.exe see If you want to use bootsect.exe end bcdedit.exe on command line please consult Microsoft documentation. Visual BCD Editor can write boot sectors and MBR too (implemented with bootsect.exe - the tool lets you select the needed parameters comfortable in a GUI).
I assume you do not develop things in a command line only environment. You can copy a BCD file, edit and then copy to any folder and drive. Using Visual BCD Editor (a complete GUI for BCD) you can edit a BCD file on any Windows accessible device not just the system BCD (which is always on active partition).
#Easy to boot partition windows 7#
Using Disk Management you can see which partition is marked active - it is either a small (about 100 MB) "System Reserved" partition or the Windows 7 partition. Windows 7 always boots to active partition - from active partition the file bootmgr is loaded and also the \boot\BCD store is read from active partition. The tool displays the contents of BCD in a structured explorer like way and allows selection and edits on every single item be it a loader or its elements.įor changing a device element - you simply select the new drive letter from a list and confirm.įor a Vista/Windows 7 loader you should change the "ApplicationDevice" and the "OSDevice" elements, the first specifies device(drive_letter) for winload.exe, the second element specifies the root of the system. I would suggest using Visual BCD Editor - a complete BCD GUI, so you don't have to go to command line and remember syntax and semantics of different command options. BEFORE ANY CHANGES TO BCD - DO A BACKUP OF BCD AND HAVE A RECOVERY CD/USB READY !!
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