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OK, so this computer has never had any Windows on it but Win7, but it has had a troubled history with many attempts at 'fixing' etc, with the standard tools on the Win7 disc. It is currently triple booting MacOS, Win7, and Ubuntu 8.10, with the Windows bootloader, and EasyBCD helping to manage the non-Windows entries in the BCD. When the computer boots, it displays a Vista style animation before the logon screen. From what I've read, this may have to do with the 'repair' process.
What's really curious, though, is that if I'm booted into the Mac partition, and I run VMWare Fusion to access and boot the Win7 partition, it then uses the Win7 style animation!! Can any of you boot experts explain this to me? In both scenarios (hardware boot and VMWare boot), I get the same boot (BCD) menu, and I end up in Windows both ways. The disk is a GPT formatted disk with four partitions, EFI, Mac, Win, Linux. I'd love to be able to get the Win7 animation when I boot, but I am not willing to sacrifice my working triple boot!
I have the Vista animation on Vista and the W7 animation on W7, though when I was dual-booting Vista and W7 via the BCD, I had Vista on both. The difference now is that I've. Previously the Vista bootmgr (renamed bootmgr.HnS by HnS) was used to open the BCD and locate the OS, so you see the Vista animation whichever OS you choose. In the mod I locate the W7 partition and make it active, then chain to the bootmgr (W7's) on that partition when booting W7, this produces the W7 animation. The W7 bootmgr doesn't use the Vista BCD but its own, which only contains a W7 entry, hence no second menu. The difference would seem to be the version of bootmgr in use.
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I don't know if EasyBCD restores a Vista version of bootmgr during repair, but it would seem likely from your description if you've never installed Vista yourself. Look at the details on bootmgr in your W7 root and compare them to those on the 'system' partition root. W7 is newer and slightly bigger than Vista. You could rename (safer than delete) the smaller version and copy the larger one in its place and I'd guess you'll see the W7 animation all the time. The BCD you see when you open EasyBCD in each case is no real guide.
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The BCD is a weird system file with an 'always open' status which is confusing when you have several independent Vista or W7 installs, each with their own BCD, because the BCD was designed to be a single copy (on the 1st install) with subsequent installs being added to the 1st BCD and no separate boot files being created on them. When I look at the BCD from a booted W7, I still see Vista's version (which obviously wasn't used when I booted or I wouldn't have ended up in W7 (it defaults to Vista, timeout(0)), but it gets displayed, presumably because it's the version on the 'system' partition. I have a simalar problem, this is how i obtained it, i have server 2008 on one drive, windows seven on a diff partition on the same drive, and xp on a seperate drive(seperate install with server seven drive disconnected), using bcd through my server install i couldn't get xp to boot, though the other two booted perfectly, but xp boots fine through the bios. I booted into xp and ran easybcd, (it had to rewrite the MBR as there were no vista installs on that drive) rebooted and works perfectly (except windows 7 has the vista(server2008?) boot animations). Great product btw, wish i could have the 7 boot animations though, (a possibility of server vista with these animations too?) update, renamed the boot folder on xp drive to boot old, copied boot folder from server drive(first partition on shared drive), now windows seven animations are back,(all boot paths work properly(i was hoping to get 7 animations for server but oh well ).
Quite Possably, but changing that file only, fixes the problem of having Vista Animation on Windows 7 after EasyBCD has Re-installed the boot loader for dual boot when the active or boot drive was the other OS and creates the new folder 'boot' in the other OPs partition root. The file 'Bootstat.dat' never changes after install and the Vista file is 64kb and Windows 7 is 66kb. Defently the only thing I changed and I compared the file on 3 other systems that were not dual boot they were all identical. It was reading Skandolis post that made look there for the solution. Thanks Skandolis. Thanks EasyBCD for the great software. Kind regards Rob.
Bootstat.dat, along with all the other BCD files in 7 have the new cool-image references plastered in an out of them. But using EasyBCD's 'recreate boot files' or any other boot file generation options, the correct versions will be installed. More importantly, installing Windows 7.should. update these to the latest versions. The original problem was not in the files located on the drive, but rather the configuration of certain properties in the BCD registry for particular entries. That's why users couldn't get the pretty-boot to show even on a PC that once had that image after re-creating the W7 entry in EasyBCD (or bcdedit).
But it should be working now.