I had to rebuild my workstation, and alone with it, install a new hard drive that is to be used for testing.<\/p>\n
Now both drives have Windows 7 installed.<\/p>\n
When the installation for the second drive started up, all I saw was:
\n Windows 7
\n Windows 7<\/p>\n
as my boot options… Shoot! Which one do I pick?<\/p>\n
Luckily for me, there is a way to fix this.<\/p>\n
In Windows 7, there is an application, named bcdedit, that allows you to change the description of the installation.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Once the program opened, I typed: After I did that, I typed: You can type msconfig at the run line too so that you can set the default operation system to load using a nice UI.<\/p>\n Extra help from<\/strong>: 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[81,88,310,494],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tip","tag-bcdedit","tag-boot-manager","tag-multiple-operating-systems","tag-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbcdedit \/export c:\\bcd_backup<\/code>
\nto backup my configuration… just to be safe.<\/p>\n
\nbcdedit \/set {current} description \"Windows 7 Working Install\"
\n<\/code>to rename the default Windows installation so that I know which one to pick.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.sevenforums.com\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/technet.microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"