How to add a boot entry for windows 7?

Hi,
The title sums it up really, I have managed to install windows 7 along side windows 10 but on a separate hard drive. When I booted the first time I couldn't see windows 7 in the boot menu.
Could someone please tell me how to add a boot entry for windows 7?

Thank you.

In windows 10, note the drive letter of Windows 7 partition e.g. F, open an admin command prompt and type

bcdboot F:\windows (change F as appropriate).

That's good thank you but how to get Windows 10 style dual-boot screen

gremar said:

That's good thank you but how to get Windows 10 style dual-boot screen

Admin Cmd Prompt:


bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy standard

bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy standard

@f14tomcat . This won't do it. OP does not have problem which one will boot first, his problem is he did not get a GUI boot screen.

@OP,
Boot up Windows 7 then do the same thing as before:
bcdboot X:\Windows where X: is the drive letter of Windows 10.

topgundcp said:

@f14tomcat . This won't do it. OP does not have problem which one will boot first, his problem is he did not get a GUI boot screen.

@OP,
Boot up Windows 7 then do the same thing as before:
bcdboot X:\Windows where X: is the drive letter of Windows 10.

Sorry, guess I misunderstood.

OP said: That's good thank you but how to get Windows 10 style dual-boot screen , I thought he meant the Metro style like this:



#3 > https://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable...-in-windows-8/

f14tomcat said:

Admin Cmd Prompt:


bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy standard

And, I'm pretty sure you have to do so on both OS's.

NavyLCDR said:

When booted into Windows 10, open a Command Prompt (Admin) and run:

Bcdboot C:\Windows

That will get the Windows 10 graphical boot menu back.

What's the difference between this and post #5. They both accomplish the same thing depending on what OS is currently running.
bcdboot will set the system to use Winload.exe (MBR)/Winload.efi(UEFI) version from Windows 10.

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