Dual Booting Windows

[Ryois]

Hello, So I have two installs of Windows one on my SSD and one on my HDD. Is there a way to do two things:

A: Change the label from both being both Windows 10.

B: Have a tray icon or icon on the desktop to switch installs with out having to shift + restart and choose another version of Windows.

It just says
Windows 10

volume 7

Windows 10

volume 3

Volume 3 windows is my HDD install and volume 7 is my SSD install.

[MrDrWho13]

A: Not sure

B: No because you need to boot into an entirely different OS, replacing all the RAM contents etc.

[Ryois]

21 minutes ago, MrDrWho13 said:

A: Not sure

B: No because you need to boot into an entirely different OS, replacing all the RAM contents etc.

But would there be a way to change Window's boot manager default OS then reboot system?

[Zmax]

Hi

 

Found this. Not sure, if safe or if it will work. It will give and Icon on desktop and let you chose reboot menu

 

http://neosmart.net/iReboot/

[Ryois]

1 minute ago, Zmax said:

Hi

 

Found this. Not sure, if safe or if it will work. It will give and Icon on desktop and let you chose reboot menu

 

http://neosmart.net/iReboot/

Trying that right now! I think I've used this before but it was like 2 years ago.

[Ryois]

@Zmax ok
iReboot will reboot via a tray icon. Another tool be neosmart is EasyBCD which you can change the boot menu's label.

[Zmax]

Cool I hope. This what you wanted

[bcguru9384]

58 minutes ago, Ryois said:

But would there be a way to change Window's boot manager default OS then reboot system?

msconfig

boot

this should give you access to add hdd as a bootable unit 

remember to untick the default wait for choice box and set your wait time

also note you can add linux here as well? 

[Ryois]

15 minutes ago, bcguru9384 said:

msconfig

boot

this should give you access to add hdd as a bootable unit 

remember to untick the default wait for choice box and set your wait time

also note you can add linux here as well? 

Yeah but I was wondering if there was a way to do it via like a cmd or powershell so I can run a script then reboot like what iReboot does.

[bcguru9384]

22 minutes ago, Ryois said:

Yeah but I was wondering if there was a way to do it via like a cmd or powershell so I can run a script then reboot like what iReboot does.

every gui was built from cmd line commands and scripts

you need to use the,,, hmm crap i dont remember the name but its the boot manager you want to script

in cmd prompt type bootmanagers exe with  spacebar /?

this activates help system

wonder if microsoft ever tie /? into cortana 

[bcguru9384]

bcdedit.exe /?

found it 

says in article to enable legacy if other OS is ntdrl (pre vista)

but does not say a limit to # of OS in list

 

note each OS can be advanced configured for max ram and cpu core total (legacy support 32bit be capped 4096)