Windows 8 Boot Manager

LucianH

I've just installed Windows 8 which I've dual booted on top of Vista on my laptop. I have one drive which had two partitions (Vista on C: and Data on ). I shrunk the partition and created a third (which I re-lettered as X: to get it out of the way when I was using vista).

I then installed Windows 8 pro on the new partition. However, when I boot up I get a "dos" based screen (like this one):



and not the GUI screen (like this one):



(Although, I have been running this config over the last week and it did boot up with the GUI once - and I don't think I did anything different).

Does anybody know how I can force it to use the GUI screen consistently?

debitcardmayhem

Not sure if it will help (I stick to grub) but try easybcd perhaps http://neosmart.net

But I think using a 1 second default will help with either solutions

debitcardmayhem

Or perhaps look here http://www.7tutorials.com/how-dual-boot-windows-8-windows-7-windows-vista-or-windows-xp

LucianH

I think I've found the answer for anybody else who's interested:

http://blog.blong.com/2012/09/windows-8-boot-manager-goodbye.html

And it looks like I don't want to change away from the old dos based boot menu. It looks like I'm getting this since my default OS is Vista. According to the article you get the nice GUI when Windows 8 is set to default but it takes time to load since it effectively starts Windows 8 (and it has to reboot when you select the other OS).