Dual-Booting Windows 7 Beta may loose current OS boot option
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While you have not lost your Windows Vista, all you need to do is to add a Boot Loader entry into your Windows 7 for Windows Vista or vice versa if you choose to recover your Windows Vista from the CD.
You can simply add the Windows Vista entry to the WIndows 7 Bootloader using a tool like EasyBCD.
or manually add an entry as follows,
1. Click Start – Search for cmd. Right-click “CMD” and choose “Run As Administrator“.
2. Run the following commands to create a Boot entry for Windows Vista:
Create a new Entry in the Boot Configuration Data Store
bcdedit /create /d “Windows Vista” /application osloader
This should create an entry for Windows Vista with an identifier like this
{1dae3673-e12c-11dd-b2e9-99cc767975b5}
Set the device partition & the OS device partition where Windows Vista is installed
bcdedit /set {1dae3673-e12c-11dd-b2e9-99cc767975b5} device partition=C:
bcdedit /set {1dae3673-e12c-11dd-b2e9-99cc767975b5} osdevice partition=E:
E: is where Windows Vista is installed
Set the path for Windows Boot Loader and the System Root
bcdedit /set {1dae3673-e12c-11dd-b2e9-99cc767975b5} path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
bcdedit /set {1dae3673-e12c-11dd-b2e9-99cc767975b5} systemroot \Windows
Set the Display Order on the Boot Menu
bcdedit /displayorder {1dae3673-e12c-11dd-b2e9-99cc767975b5} /addlast
This should help!
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