I installed windows 8 on my pc and it does not recognize boot windows 7, I think it was because the boot partition formatted what I do?
Op needs to explain what you have done, so the people here can help you fix what has happened in your install.
I formatted the partition reserved by the system because it appeared this message: setup was enabled to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the system log files for more information.
Are you shutting down from Windows 8, it may be due to Hybrid boot hiding the boot menu. Boot into Windows 8 then select Restart and your boot menu should appear.
Guys it is so much easier then that lol. All you have to do is go into the startup and recovery options under the advanced system options. right click Computer -> Properties -> Advanced system settings -> Startup ->Change to win7 and give a 30 second timer. That is all you need to do dude.
oh ok in that case put the win7 dvd into your computer, boot it up, then select repair and let it do it's automatic startup repair and it should fix it. Strange it did that to you and not me though lol. SOrry about that.
Well maybe with it not changing for me but IDK for sure. It is hard to say honestly, probably boot code install issues since this is a beta more or less though. My guess is sometimes win8 will over write the bcd instead of adding an entry into it. Hard to say though.
Download EasyBCD (cause.. you know screwing around in command line as noob results in fail) Click 'Add New Entry', click the OBVIOUS 'Add Entry' button on top just as it is, if you installed Windows 7 on C:\, this might do the job... Ofcourse you can also just run startup repair with win7 disk. Edit: Someone should seriously add some VHD Boot Sticky for all these 'noobs' who screw up their system with the leaks :O
Well it might or might not work dude, From my experience neither vistabootpro or easyBCD will run on this build, both execute then terminate right away. I tried various compatibility options and no dice so I would do what acrsn said.