I triple boot Win 7 Pro, Win 8.1 Pro, and Win 10 RTM Pro. Before I refreshed Win 10, the screen was there to choose which of the 3 OS's to boot into. Now the screen is gone and it boots to Win 10 without a choice. How do I get the boot screen back to choose which OS to boot into ?
There is no Refresh. There are two Resets: with and without formatting the drive. I wonder if Windows 10 "reset" your EFI/System partition? elevated command prompt: bcdedit /enum all If there are only windows 10 entries, you'll have to add the others back in.
oloruin I did a Reset without formatting. I did your CMD thing and saw all 3 OS listed. How do you check EFI/System Partition ? slave77 I tried your suggestion. It didn't work for me. Any thing else to try ?
If that doesn't work the old boot menu was over-written i would assume. Try to re-instate with EasyBCD . Does msconfig show disabled entries?
You can try adding a timeout value to see if the menu is just going to {default} or timing out too quick: elevated command prompt: bcdedit /timeout 30 for a 30 second timeout on the BCD menu. That will let you know if it's processing the "legacy" BCD menu properly. The other thing you may want to check is fastboot, I think it may short-circuit BCD menus and do a resume straight-away: run: powercfg.cpl left side: change power button top, middle: change other settings scroll down: uncheck fast boot edit: EFI/System Partition - this is the mini "boot" partition starting with Windows 7. EFI/GPT setups use a special FAT32 boot partition, BIOS/MBR systems usually have a "System Reserved" partititon. Basically, boot loader files that process the BCD and hand off to the OS. (Dell usually combined the system & recovery partitions in Windows 7 units)
I checked the timeout value. It had been reset to 0. I reset to 30 like you suggested and the screen is back. Thank you
It might have overwritten all of your boot info. try booting into a win10 dvd and go around doing: bcdboot c:\windows bcdboot d:\windows bcdboot e:\windows etc for every system partition. I think that might fix the problem, but if it doesn't *shrug* sorry.