Changing the boot order

SIW2 said:

I have already pointed out more than once on this thread you have a boot manager on each disk. This is taking you a long time because you dont read the posts.

There is nothing wrong with having a boot manager on each disk. It is what I have.

True if you understand how boot managers and bios interact.

What we need to do is go back to basics and lead OP through steps so OP gains knowledge and confidence (plus helping others maybe). Lets get his pc set in most basic mode i.e. one operational boot manager with all the necessary bcd entries added. Once that is done OP can experiment with multiple boot managers. The way to sort OPs issues is baby steps.

cereberus said:

True if you understand how boot managers and bios interact.

What we need to do is go back to basics and lead OP through steps so OP gains knowledge and confidence (plus helping others maybe). Lets get his pc set in most basic mode i.e. one operational boot manager with all the necessary bcd entries added. Once that is done OP can experiment with multiple boot managers. The way to sort OPs issues is baby steps.

There's only one sensible path gong forward, considering where we are, and who you guys area dealing with here, me, Mr. Baby Steps,

We can always advance from one to three, Lets just keep it simple to start.

Just for the sake of conversation, you discussed redundancy. Aside from that, what is the benefit of three boot managers? Does the EFI partition set up in a single boot Macrium image solve redundancy and retain/replicate this single boot environment control over the multi boot environment if the image is restored to another disk, thus eliminating the need for the three boot managers?

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SIW2 said:

I have already pointed out more than once on this thread you have a boot manager on each disk. This is taking you a long time because you dont read the posts.

There is nothing wrong with having a boot manager on each disk. It is what I have.

Because in your screenshot your bios boot options selection doesnt show many characters it might help you to change the descriptions.

It is not necessary in my bios because the names of the disks are displayed. However, I changed the boot manager descriptions anyway because why not

I value your input,.

I asked you to post an image of your drives plus the order you want to boot. Without that basic information, we cannot progress. Forget about what has been done, lets get back to basics.

cereberus said:

I asked you to post an image of your drives plus the order you want to boot. Without that basic information, we cannot progress. Forget about what has been done, lets get back to basics.

This is what things look like since the changes. The preferred boot order and names. Would images from Macrium help?

C:\ = Windows 1
D:\ = Windows 2
L:\ = Windows 3

kitpzyxmsir said:

This is what things look like since the changes. The preferred boot order

C:\ = Volume 1
D:\ = Volume 2
L:\ = Volume 3

Here is where you are getting tangled up - your graphics screen is based on EFI on drive 0.

You are confusing the graphics menu with the order you have selected to boot devices in your bios as you have 3 boot managers.

Run MS config and post image of boot tab results.

cereberus said:

Here is where you are getting tangled up - your graphics screen is based on EFI on drive 0.

You are confusing the graphics menu with the order you have selected to boot devices in your bios as you have 3 boot managers.

Run MS config and post image of boot tab results.

kitpzyxmsir said:

That is great - we are nearly there - So what do you want to change the names, order and to what? Remember the graphics menu always put the entries in 3 horizontal rows and 2 vertical columns

Entry 1 Entry 4

Entry 2 Entry 5

Entry 3 Entry 6

If more than 6, they get displayed on another page.

cereberus said:

That is great - we are nearly there - So what do you want to change the names, order and to what? Remember the graphics menu always put the entries in 3 horizontal rows and 2 vertical columns

Entry 1 Entry 4

Entry 2 Entry 5

Entry 3 Entry 6

If more than 6, they get displayed on another page.

Ok @kitpzyxmsir getting late now. Speak to you tomorrow.