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EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies free Windows bootloader (BCD) modification tool.

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EasyBCD modifies the Windows Boot Configuration Data (BCD) to add support for other entries.

, , and are supported by handing off the control of boot to their NTLDR.

, and are booted via modified versions of IO.sys and the Windows 9x boot sector.

and are loaded either by handing off control of the boot process to or or by using EasyBCD's own NeoGrub module (which is based on GRUB4DOS).

is loaded via the bootloader.

What is EasyBCD?

  • EasyBCD is NeoSmart Technologies 100% free Windows bootloader (BCD) modification tool.
  • A way to get your Windows Vista or Windows 7 working with Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and dozens more operating systems without a headache!
  • The easiest way of booting from virtual disks, ISO images, network devices, or USB disks!

You can download EasyBCD form NeoSmart Technologies website.

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EasyBCD Documentation Home
Wikipedia - EasyBCD
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How do I get the Windows 8 boot loader back and also list both Windows XP and Windows 7?

I have a system with Windows 7 and Windows XP, and today I have installed the Windows 8 Developer Preview into a spare partition (that I leave for a few months without any important data there). When booting from a bootable device and doing the…
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Since EasyBCD is no more free as beer, what can I use instead?

Is there an easy-to-use and reliable alternative?
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How to replace GRUB boot loader, from within Windows?

I have dual boot (Debian and Windows XP), and the boot is from GRUB. I want to remove Linux and grub, and restore the Windows boot. However, I cannot use installation CD to restore the MBR. Thus, I want to restore Windows boot from inside the…
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Windows doesn't recognize Ubuntu DVD

I want to dual boot my laptop, but Windows doesn't read the Ubuntu DVD. It doesn't recognize it, nor a Linux Mint DVD. Two days ago I installed Mint 13, then removed it because of installation errors, and changed some stuff using EasyBCD. Now it…
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Netbook won't boot after using EasyBCD

I have an Asus T91MT netbook on which I used to have Windows 7 Home Premium and Ubuntu 10.10 installed (dual boot). After trying to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu is no longer able to boot, so I tried to uninstall Ubuntu completely and then…
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Installed Lubuntu as dual boot to Windows 7 and now Windows won't load

Last year when I installed an SSD in my laptop, I partitioned off a few GB to try dual booting to Linux. At the time, I was able to set up Ubuntu on that partition and used EasyBCD to manage the boot process. I haven't really played with it since,…
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Windows 8.1 Pro won't boot, Status: 0xc000000e

My computer has been working fine until yesterday. I turned it on and immediately after the motherboard logo, I got an error screen (light blue) saying, Your PC Needs to be Repaired with an error code Status: 0xc000000e. There was no file/driver…
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Unable to load Windows after using EasyBCD to Reset bcd

My windows installation was working perfectly fine until i clicked "Reset BCD" in EasyBCD in Windows 8. After clicking that EasyBCD told me to add Win 8 entry via Add Entry Menu so i did. After restart, win 8 would not start. Neither would recovery…
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Lost Windows 7 boot after EasyBCD with EFI

I've got a Lenovo Y580 with a 64GB SSD and a 1TB HDD setup using GPT and setup to boot from (U?)EFI. I was trying to get my Linux Mint installation on the Windows boot manager using EasyBCD (I didn't realise EFI but it wiped my boot…
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How to recover boot options after deleting them with EasyBCD?

I have a dual-boot Asus notebook and I almost-accidentally deleted every boot option with EasyBCD. Now I can only load Ubuntu, because there are no more boot options on the Windows partition. Is there a way to boot on Windows again? I also have a…
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Getting only grub prompt after installing dual boot Windows 7 then Ubuntu and EasyBCD

I'm having an annoying problem. I installed Windows 7 a long time ago, yesterday I installed Ubuntu 10.04. After installing the Ubuntu, it was working great (I got the grub boot menu and everything) but the Windows 7 didn't boot. After reading many…
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Can I uninstall EasyBCD after I have removed the ubuntu entry?

I was facing many problems while using Ubuntu in dual boot with Windows 10 so I removed Ubuntu by deleting its partition and followed some steps I found in a video to remove GRUB: bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot bootrec /scanos bootrec…
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Can't do anything after using the repair boot files action from EasyBCD

I had both Ubuntu and Windows installed in dual-boot config. Windows 10 was on my SSD and Ubuntu 14.04 on the HDD. One day, the HDD crashed and Ubuntu was gone, not a big deal because I got a new HDD. But in the UEFI of my Asus z-97 motherboard,…
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Accidentally deleted easybcd folder

I was trying to make a dualboot with ubuntu and windows 10. I didn't want the easybcd bootmenu but the grub so i deleted easybcd and other folder(I dont remember the name but it was in the C drive) from easybcd. Now when I boot i'm get this error:…
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Change bootloader (remove Grub) with dual boot Windows 10/Linux Mint 17

I have a laptop that runs Linux Mint 17 and Windows 10- that is to say Windows 7 "upgraded" to Windows 10 such that the bootloader shows Windows 7, instead of Windows 10. I want to uninstall Linux Mint from my laptop, mainly to free up space…
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