{"id":14786,"date":"2015-02-13T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T09:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2015\/02\/13\/easily-edit-and-repair-windows-boot\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T10:02:35","slug":"easily-edit-and-repair-windows-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2015\/02\/13\/easily-edit-and-repair-windows-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"Easily edit and repair Windows boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>In some cases you need to edit\/repair Windows boot, for example if you have a dual boot Linux\/Windows and want remove Linux or when some programs modify boot adding new boot entries (generally to start these programs in a safe environment).<\/p>\n<p>If you want to delete these bootloaders (eg. GRUB, GRUB4DOS) and restore the original Windows bootloader you can use two useful free programs: <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/EasyBCD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EasyBCD<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boyans.net\/DualBootRepair.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dual boot Repair tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first, available for free by choosing the Community Edition version, allows to easily edit the boot and add new boot entries or delete existing ones.<br \/>\nAnother useful feature is the BCD (Boot Configuration Data) Backup\/Repair.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8033\/8023735650_6cb913875f_o.png\" width=\"389\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other program, for Windows 7, 8, Vista, XP has a simple menu that allows: repair BCD, backup\/export BCD, restore\/import BCD, repair the MBR, this is very useful when you don&#8217;t have the original Windows installation disc that allows to repair the Master Boot Record.<\/p>\n<p>These software works in Windows, but if the operating system doesn&#8217;t start because the boot has problems what you can do?<br \/>\nYou can use another free software, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aomeitech.com\/pe-builder.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AOMEI PE Builder<\/a> that allows to create a bootable disc\/USB based on Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment). It has various utilities, included <a href=\"http:\/\/bootice.win7dwnld.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BOOTICE<\/a>, it allows to manage the boot and also restore it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In some cases you need to edit\/repair Windows boot, for example if you have a dual boot Linux\/Windows and want remove Linux or when some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3485],"tags":[3348],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials-en","tag-windows"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Simone","author_link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/tutorials-en\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tutorials<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tutorials<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/category\/tutorials-en\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">windows<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">windows<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 12 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 13, 2015","modified":"Updated on October 2, 2018"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 13, 2015 10:52 am","modified":"Updated on October 2, 2018 12:02 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}