HI all,
had a PC with two installs of XP. After making a new partition and installing Windows 10,
booting the PC brings up a newfangled Windows 10 screen, where you can select either Windows 10,
or "older operating systems" - which if selected, the PC reboots and finally gives you
the XP boot.ini style menu, where you can proceed to XP. A little cumbersome but it worked.
Due to a separate, unrelated Windows 10 problem I was forced to do a "reset", which is kind of
a reinstall on top of itself. Sure enough the WIndows 10 problems seem resolved.
However, when booting the PC, I no longer get the screen referred to above where you can choose
which system to boot - instead it goes directly to the screen where you
select your ID and enter the password for Windows 10.
Something is broken. I know in the older OS's you had bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd but I don't think
this new OS is using this mechanism..
Anybody have any idea's of troubleshooting this?
TIA,
Dave
EDIT the workaround on this page works - gives you an XP-style menu, performs much quicker than the previous GUI
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...n-latest/0f760ab7-26af-46a7-a5db-e0048a8cf3f4
had a PC with two installs of XP. After making a new partition and installing Windows 10,
booting the PC brings up a newfangled Windows 10 screen, where you can select either Windows 10,
or "older operating systems" - which if selected, the PC reboots and finally gives you
the XP boot.ini style menu, where you can proceed to XP. A little cumbersome but it worked.
Due to a separate, unrelated Windows 10 problem I was forced to do a "reset", which is kind of
a reinstall on top of itself. Sure enough the WIndows 10 problems seem resolved.
However, when booting the PC, I no longer get the screen referred to above where you can choose
which system to boot - instead it goes directly to the screen where you
select your ID and enter the password for Windows 10.
Something is broken. I know in the older OS's you had bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd but I don't think
this new OS is using this mechanism..
Anybody have any idea's of troubleshooting this?
TIA,
Dave
EDIT the workaround on this page works - gives you an XP-style menu, performs much quicker than the previous GUI
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...n-latest/0f760ab7-26af-46a7-a5db-e0048a8cf3f4
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