Hey guys
I'm having a little weird thingy with my dual boot systems at work... I've been Google-ing a while, but can't find anything about it. Allow me to explain.
I have a classroom with 16 computers running Windows 7 Professional. Because a course of Windows 8.1 will start next month, I have to install a dual boot system in that classroom. So, like normally, I take one PC to my office, create an extra partition, install Windows 8.1 on it, do the necessary configurations and place the Win 7 partition as default. No problems there.
After the install and configuration, I create an image of the Windows 8 partition, the system state and MBR. So actually, I have an image of all the available partitions, except the Win 7 partition. After creating an image, I'm going back to the classroom and install it on the PC's. After putting the image of the partitions, one problem arrives and that's the MBR. But after a few commands (bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /fixboot, bootrec /scanos, bootrec /rebuildbcd), that problem is solved.
So, everything is ready to rock! Or so I thought... Here's my real problem now. When you boot the PC, you get the new blue boot option of Win 8 where you can choose which OS to boot. Well, when I select the Win 7 partition as default, I get the old DOS screen
for that. Ok fine, not a big problem, but the problem goes deeper.
With Win 8.1 you have two ways of shutting down a PC: either via right mousse click on the start button followed with 'shut down', or use the charms bar. If I do it the way with the start button, the PC boots in the Win 7 OS by default (just as I want it to
be). BUT when I shutdown the PC via the charms bar, the PC skips the "select OS to boot" menu and immediately starts Win 8!
I hope my entire explanation is clear to understand... So, anyone advice?
NOTE: On the source PC (created with the DVD and pulled the image from) is this problem not happening.