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@magilla
The Boot Records appear to be messed up and BCDDATA does not include an entry for the Insider, for whatever reason. When there is only one OS "seen" by Boot Manager, you will not get a boot menu. 3 solutions I can offer that would not require a clean install (in increasing order of complexity):
1. Get Macrium Reflect (should already be using this, IMO), make a Rescue thumb or DVD, boot from it and choose "Fix Boot Records".
2. Get EasyBCD, and carefully add the correct partition that is missing to the BCDDATA, and choose use "Metro/Modern Boot Menu".
3. Manually using CMD prompt and command bcdedit, enter all the necessary data exactly as it needs to be, making sure everything points correctly to the proper partitions and all spelling is perfect.
I prefer the first.
TC
@ Tomcat:
I did boot repair with Macrium 7.
Before this, I was told by someone else to add this command to boot
bcdboot D:\Windows /d /addlast
The problem now is at each boot, I see this:
>>Checking Media Presence . . . .
>>Media Present . . .
>>Start PXE over IPv4
then another Asus mobo boot before I get to the boot menu.
The time to get from one boot screen to alternate boot is 4 minutes now.
I have no idea what that is. Looks like it's trying to boot or do something () over the internet. Better find that "someone" and ask how to deal with it, or maybe somebody else knows.
Just a thought......check your bios settings and make sure the HDD/SSD is first. Might be listed as "Boot Manager", followed by the ipv4 and ipv6.
Last edited by f14tomcat; 11 May 2017 at 07:00.
Thanks@Tomcat. This is Uefi bios and has become my new dream system from he**! Give me old fashioned bios. Yes the boot order is internet first. I am looking at as us mobo manual to see how to change order. Only God and builder knows why set up that way, and why boot drive is second in system and not first.
@count - Yes, I've been with Legacy BIOS most of my life - since early 80's also. Knew my way around with legacy, but - even though I have a portable that is UEFI bios, I do not dual boot it. So haven't had problems with it. This computer has ASUS mobo, which I'm not familiar with. I have to do some reading in motherboard manual to see what is what.
@tomcat, thanks for your vote of confidence. I have some reading to do first -- maybe I'll just restore my original disk remove the insider install and leave the second disk empty --- but seems such a shame. I had this system build to my specs with two 1 GB SSD drives just so I could have another system with Insider builds on it.