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Dual booting problems with Vista and Windows 7 after TIH image restore

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Hi there.

If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be most grateful.

I've been using Acronis TIH to back up my Vista partition for some time quite successfully.

Then I installed Win7 on a partition on a second internal drive. I now could automatically boot into either Vista or Win7. I backed up and restored Win7 without any problems and without affecting my Vista partition or the dual boot options.

However, on restoring a Vista image (that was made before the Win7 installation) I no longer have the option on booting to choose Vista or Win7 - the computer just boots directly into Vista.

I had read that it would be a good idea to change the BIOS settings to boot from my second hard drive and then install Win7. Then on booting I can just choose hard drive 1 or hard drive 2 to boot from and as each drive would have it's own MBR backups with TIH would be easy and would not affect other OS installations on other partitions.

However, my BIOS does not allow me to select my 2nd hard drive as one of the 4 bootable media.

Any advice on how to make backups/restores of both Vista/Win7 and still be able to dual boot would be great.

Thanks

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Grant:

The reason that this happened to you is that Windows 7 installed its boot files on the Vista partition on the first hard disk. All that you need to do is to fix that, and then make a backup of the Vista partition again. The new backup will contain the needed boot manager entry for booting both Vista and Windows 7.

Do you have a backup of the Vista partition that was made after installing Win 7? If so, just restore it. If not, try the easy way first. Boot your PC from the Windows 7 DVD and choose automatic repair. This will probably fix you up.