Boot manager not showing on startup

Technology
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When I start my PC, I do not get a boot manager screen, giving me the option to either boot into Windows 7 or Windows XP.

Going into BIOS and changing boot priority works fine, but this is mission impossible. I’ve been into the control panel route to boot manager, but it only lists Windows XP. No sign of Windows 7.

I seem to remember back then when my PC showed up a boot manager to either boot into Windows 7 or Windows XP like several days ago.

What’s the problem and how do I fix it?

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you probably need to boot into a windows 7 recovery environment and type the following into a recovery command prompt:

bootrec /rebuildbcd
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
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Try to boot into the Windows 7 CD and press “Repair your computer” after selecting the language and region. Startup Repair should run automatically, when this happens, it should list any missing boot sectors and offer to fix them.

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If the mouse doesn’t work but the keyboard does, Try ALT+R

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Everytime I try to boot into the Windows 7 installation environment it refuses to boot for unknown reasons.

Edit: For some reason, after I created a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive, it booted properly.

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For whatever reason, everytime I select the Windows 7 hard drive, it tells me that the version of system recovery options is incompatible with the version of Windows I’m trying to repair. (I can only select the Windows XP hard drive!)

Is this a known bug? Is there some way to fix it?