Thread: Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows 8

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Basically no different from other dual boot setups while. I would be cautious. Dual Booting on a Beta testing OS might cause troubles later with when the Beta expires. It should not do because both Win 7 and Win 8 apply the same BCD or Boot Configuration Data to boot up as far as I experience, but the BCD with the Win 7 setup will be substituted or changed by the Win 8 setup process. Thus when Win 8 is deleted, the BCD should however work the same.

I made a boot patrician drive and setup Windows 8 on it. From your reply, I appear to acquire the impression that I can not remove Windows 8 from My computer and only go rear to Windows 7 operating system. Am I stuck with Windows 8 on my computer, or is there a work around to remove it completely?

Assuming that Windows 7's own BCD, file was over-written by the Win 8 Beta setup and is however located with the Win 7 partition, then if/when Win 8 Beta times out, that BCD will however display the dual boot menu during boot up and you will however be able to boot into Win 7.

Thus, as well if you delete the Win 8 partition, you should ho be able to boot up into Win 7. The difficulty comes apparently, but I am unsure about this, is if you attempt to edit the BCD to remove the dual boot option menu. You may require something as EasyBCD to do that.

Installing to partition compared to setting up to VHD has a small advantage in disk operations times, all else is the same - native device access. Making, sizing, moving partitions is ever dangerous, in contrast a VHD is a normal file in the file system thus no partition troubles.

The BCD is just data for boot manager and format of this file is the same in Windows 7 and 8.
The trouble looks to be more that Windows 8 boot manager once setup can not be removed extreme simple - a task for extreme advanced users merely like there is just one boot manager in control of the booting at any given moment. Messing around with boot manager can make the system unbootable.

Users are wondered that even after they delete Windows 8 partition (or VHD) Windows 8 boot manager is still there. It seems Windows 7 Start Up Repair cannot fix this keeping Windows 7 boot manager back in control.