I wanted to try out Win 8.1 64bit Home Edition, while still leaving my Win 7 64 Home Ed in tact. So I tried to make a dual boot. This has not worked out as I wanted to, to say the least:
- I have 1 SSD with Win 7 64 Bit on
- I have a second SSD where I put Win 8.1 64 bit on
I installed all motherboard, audio, video etc drivers.
After the install I wanted to set the boot order. In Win 8.1 I went to the Command Prompt. I first typed: Bootrec.exe /ScanOS and it found my second SSD. Then I typed: Bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd and added the Win7 drive. I typed 'exit' and also put the Boot Order as Win7 first.
I rebooted my system, and it complained that I had to check my disk as it was maybe corrupt. I let it run through the Diskscan. I rebooted again, same thing with the other drive.
I booted into Win 7. Now the strange thing is: my Broadcom 802.11ac Wireless adapter didn't seem to function right anymore! Under the 'Device Manager' it says it is working correctly. I did a Diagnosis, and while the driver seems good, it just doesn't see the networks for some reason and Windows doesn't seem to be able to correct the issue.
I removed the Broadcom 802.11ac Wireless adapter from the Device Manager, rebooted, let it install again. Still doesn't work. I rolled back to System Restore from a few days ago, still does not work!!!!!
When I plug in a Wireless USB stick, that one does work it sees the Wireless networks no problem! It's just the build in one doesn't in Win 7 anymore! But it DOES work under Win 8.1. This totally boggles my mind.
Anyway, I still have not gotten my dual boot to work. If I set my second drive (which has Win 8.1 + the Boot Manager on it), as the first drive in the Bios, and I boot and let it start up the Win 7 SSD, the Boot Manager says there is something wrong with the Win 7 drive or that it can not connect with it.
If I put the Win7 drive as the first boot drive in the Bios, it boots up fine (but does not start a Boot Manager obviously).
---> how do I solve my problem with the Broadcom 802.11ac Wireless adapter?
---> how can I make my Dual Boot with 2 SSD's work right?
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3
Processor Count: 8
RAM: 16322 Mb
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC., Z87-DELUXE
- I have 1 SSD with Win 7 64 Bit on
- I have a second SSD where I put Win 8.1 64 bit on
I installed all motherboard, audio, video etc drivers.
After the install I wanted to set the boot order. In Win 8.1 I went to the Command Prompt. I first typed: Bootrec.exe /ScanOS and it found my second SSD. Then I typed: Bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd and added the Win7 drive. I typed 'exit' and also put the Boot Order as Win7 first.
I rebooted my system, and it complained that I had to check my disk as it was maybe corrupt. I let it run through the Diskscan. I rebooted again, same thing with the other drive.
I booted into Win 7. Now the strange thing is: my Broadcom 802.11ac Wireless adapter didn't seem to function right anymore! Under the 'Device Manager' it says it is working correctly. I did a Diagnosis, and while the driver seems good, it just doesn't see the networks for some reason and Windows doesn't seem to be able to correct the issue.
I removed the Broadcom 802.11ac Wireless adapter from the Device Manager, rebooted, let it install again. Still doesn't work. I rolled back to System Restore from a few days ago, still does not work!!!!!
When I plug in a Wireless USB stick, that one does work it sees the Wireless networks no problem! It's just the build in one doesn't in Win 7 anymore! But it DOES work under Win 8.1. This totally boggles my mind.
Anyway, I still have not gotten my dual boot to work. If I set my second drive (which has Win 8.1 + the Boot Manager on it), as the first drive in the Bios, and I boot and let it start up the Win 7 SSD, the Boot Manager says there is something wrong with the Win 7 drive or that it can not connect with it.
If I put the Win7 drive as the first boot drive in the Bios, it boots up fine (but does not start a Boot Manager obviously).
---> how do I solve my problem with the Broadcom 802.11ac Wireless adapter?
---> how can I make my Dual Boot with 2 SSD's work right?
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 60 Stepping 3
Processor Count: 8
RAM: 16322 Mb
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC., Z87-DELUXE
