
Some advanced tricks that you can pull off with EasyBCD and some commonly-requested guides. Dual-booting an existing Windows XP installation.These cover the basic features baked into EasyBCD. Please use EasyBCD with care, it’s a powerful tool that you can either make your life a lot easier or make it rather miserable by letting you shoot yourself in the foot. It can perform a variety of tasks ranging in complexity and application from the most basic to advanced and highly-customizable features. Please note, this is the classic text based menu which require using the navigation keys on your keyboard (up or down) then hitting Enter.EasyBCD is a powerful bootloader-modification tool that has a wide-range of applications and usages. You should be able to select the other operating system when you start the computer. In my case, I am dual booting the Windows 10 Technical Preview with Windows 7. Under Startup and Recovery, click SettingsĬlick in the Default operating system list box Restart and you should be offered a boot menu to choose which version of Windows you want to boot into. This is best done through an administrator command-prompt.Īt the command prompt, enter the following command:īcdedit /set displaybootmenu yes

To use this functionality while keeping Windows 10 the default operating system, the boot configuration tool can be used to activate the boot menu. In this article, we show you a quick work around. EasyBCD will recreate (if possible) your boot files and re-configure your bootloader from scratch. Select Re-create/repair boot files then Perform Action to begin recovery. Go to the BCD Backup/Repair page: EasyBCD BCD backup-repair screen. One of the discovered bugs in the new build of Windows 10, if you have a dual boot setup with an older version of Windows such as Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, this menu goes missingĪfter upgrading to the latest build. Boot into a working copy of Windows and install/run EasyBCD.

Microsoft recently released an updated build of Windows 10 Technical Preview.
