Comments on: Windows 7 Becomes the Default Boot Option After Dual-Boot Setup

By: stanzy

stanzy — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:42:46 +0000

Guys – use the software I mentioned earlier

http://neosmart.net/

I have a tri-boot system

2HD’s – 3 OSes

It works fine.

It also has a very powerful set of tools, one of which have helped me when a partition died

I’m not linked in anyway to the neosoft people, this is just great free software

Cheers!

By: John

John — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:16:08 +0000

Agree with Matt. This tip doesn’t work for me.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:37:09 +0000

Actually, this tip didn’t work for me. In Windows XP, only XP is listed as an OS; in Windows 7, only 7 is listed as an OS. Each respective system thinks it’s the default, and I end up having to pick XP every time (now that I’m done beta testing 7 until the RC comes out)

By: stanzy

stanzy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:51:43 +0000

re: My earlier post/iReboot 1.1

iReboot 1.1 DOES work in XP Pro.

For some odd reason I hadn’t installed it. Corrected this today and tested it.

My bad.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:09:55 +0000

Thanks, great help, i changed time out to min 3 seconds so its a quicker bootup now

By: stanzy

stanzy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:04:36 +0000

I had this issue with a dual boot Vista – XP Pro system.

I use EasyBCD 1.7.2 and also iReboot 1.1 to fix this and to choose which OS to switch to.

Works with Vista and W7 – You can choose to boot into XP if you run it, but the app is not able to run on XP (XP Pro)

Currently running Vista/XP Pro/Windows 7 Beta Two HD’s – tri boot.

XP Pro and W7 on same HD.

Get it from:

http://neosmart.net/