I had to rebuild my workstation, and alone with it, install a new hard drive that is to be used for testing.
Now both drives have Windows 7 installed.
When the installation for the second drive started up, all I saw was:
Windows 7
Windows 7
as my boot options… Shoot! Which one do I pick?
Luckily for me, there is a way to fix this.
In Windows 7, there is an application, named bcdedit, that allows you to change the description of the installation.
So, I clicked on the “Start” menu, clicked in the search box and typed “cmd”. The program showed up on the top of the menu and I right-clicked on it to select the “Run As administrator” mode.
Once the program opened, I typed:
bcdedit /export c:\bcd_backup
to backup my configuration… just to be safe.
After I did that, I typed:
bcdedit /set {current} description "Windows 7 Working Install"to rename the default Windows installation so that I know which one to pick.
You can type msconfig at the run line too so that you can set the default operation system to load using a nice UI.
Extra help from:
http://www.sevenforums.com/
http://technet.microsoft.com