Easy BCD Windows Boot Manager

Mar

2008

Easy BCD Windows Boot Manager

If you wish to hack Windows Vista Boot Manager, as you know or you should, you have to click on Start (bottom left of your desktop), All Programs, Accessories, Command Prompt and write BCDEDIT. The solution anyway it is not handy, since once the DOS window gets filled with all the information, you may be at loss about what to do. The easy solution here is to downlaod the light, freeware, easy-to-configure EasyBCD. This little program lets you configure your Windows Vista boot in many ways. With its features you can: multi-and dual-boot profiles for Windows Vista + Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, back up and recover your bootloader settings, debug the boot process, create multiple boot profiles etc. With Easy BCD nothing is impossible for you anymore, even if you are not equipped with a specialised knowledge!

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13 Comments to “Easy BCD Windows Boot Manager”

Bob Says:
January 18th, 2009 at 9:01 am

Great Program! I installed the Beta of Windows 7 on a separate hard disk. I didn’t realize that it would modify the boot record on my XP hard disk. Windows 7 Beta didn’t work for me. I was then stuck with the Winodows 7 Bootloader on my XP drive. Easy BCD removed the vista bootloader in seconds. The only effort it required from me was to read the menu items and select remove vista boot record.

-A very happy camper
Web Talk Says:
January 18th, 2009 at 9:11 am

Great! I am happy Web Talk helped you solve your issues! Do you have anything to say about Windows 7? What do you think about it?
techrajesh Says:
January 21st, 2009 at 9:41 am

i have windows xp installed in my c drive and windows vista in d…..partition c (xp) is my primary partition…now i want to get rid of xp and reclaim space in partition c by formatting it…i wanna use easy bcd such that i would delete xp from the add/remove entries ….and then write that mbr …..will this not affect my vista partition…will i be able to boot into vista then,,,,my conf looks like…

There are a total of 3 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader.
Bootloader Timeout: 10 seconds.
Default OS: Microsoft Windows Vista

Entry #1

Name: Earlier Version of Windows
BCD ID: {ntldr}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \ntldr

Entry #2

Name: Microsoft Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry #3

Name: Ubuntu
BCD ID: {c6b6fabc-af4a-11dd-8cd8-0019db395a50}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr
Coolname007 Says:
January 28th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

@techrajesh: Hello. No…deleting the XP entry in your Vista bootloader will not mess up your Vista boot. Simply go to Add/Remove Entries in EasyBCD, and select the XP entry, and click on the Delete button, and you will then only have the Vista and Wubi entries in your Vista bootloader menu, when you reboot.

GL and let me know how it goes.

-Coolname007
Ron Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 9:01 am

I have Vista and Win7 instaled in seperate partitions on one drive. Vista is on the first partition (C:) and 7 on the second (D:). The boot loader defaults to Vista.

I couldn’t figure out how to copy the contents of the View Settings window here but the issue is I can see the Win7 partition when Vista is running but I can’t see the Vista partition when Win7 is running.
Web Talk Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 10:39 am

hey Ron,
is the email you provided in the comment valid? I think I have a solution for you.
Ron Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 11:39 am

Yes that is my correct E-mail.

TIA,
Ron
Ron Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

I managed to get the data copied. No explanation whay it didnt work before:

Here is what it looks like while running Win7:

There are a total of 2 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader.
Bootloader Timeout: 10 seconds.
Default OS: Microsoft Windows Vista

Entry #1

Name: Windows 7
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry #2

Name: Microsoft Windows Vista
BCD ID: {default}
Drive: \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Here is what it looks like when running Vista:
There are a total of 2 entries listed in the Vista Bootloader.
Bootloader Timeout: 10 seconds.
Default OS: Microsoft Windows Vista

Entry #1

Name: Windows 7
BCD ID: {e3bf607f-eb08-11dd-a1f1-ccd90db20e2d}
Drive: D:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows

Entry #2

Name: Microsoft Windows Vista
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows
Web Talk Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

hey Ron,
I am glad that you got a solution. Anyway check your e-mail. Thanks
Ron Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

Thank you. It worked!
Ron Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

I didn’t want a frowney face – how do I change it?
Web Talk Says:
January 29th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

Hello again Ron,
actually it is the system which assigns the avatar to you. If you want to change it, you have to sign-up here:
http://www.gravatar.com/

Greets!