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I have a desktop Windows PC with two drives. One has a complete Windows 7 installation and the second is now fully upgraded to Windows 10.
I want to see a menu choice of operating systems on boot up.
At the moment I go into the BIOS to boot from the non-default option, but this involves several levels of the menu.
Question
Is EasyBCD (or a clone) the only way forward?
Note: In my searches I have come across the name bootmgr.exe but I haven't found anything about that that helps me.
Any ideas how to proceed?
I would try installing W10 first, then install W7 with the W10 drive connected during install, W7 should install a nice bootloader (never tried it). Personally I like EasyBCD for this type of situation. – Moab – 2015-08-19T15:45:09.403
I could try that. The problem is that W7 is loaded from the recovery partition on the disk and so returns it to 'factory' status. It assumes what hardware will be there and I'm pretty sure won't even try to see if there's another disk on the system. – chasly from UK – 2015-08-23T18:57:59.980
1Do you have anything against using EasyBCD? – Mahmoud Al-Qudsi – 2015-09-17T17:16:12.970
This could be done, back in the day, with 16-bit boot managers... I'm guessing it was rpm (Ranish Partition Manager), but might've been XFDisk. GAG was probably easier to use. But all that that is probably based on code that assumes 16-bit operation to set up and, even more limiting, MBR-based disks (older solutions that didn't use GPT). So if you're using GPT, you might need to look for a newer solution. I would probably search for "boot manager". Using BIOS may be less ideal; I think some implementations worked by hiding a drive, or re-ordering it, so auto-assigned drive names would differ – TOOGAM – 2015-11-08T19:52:47.687