Question Multi boot system, change default boot order

[frusubilam]

I have 3 internal drives with identical OS partitions. I have recently changed the names and boot display order with the following commands (identifiers included)

C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit /set {current} description "Windows 1"
C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit /set {identifier} description "Windows 2"
C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit /set {identifier} description "Windows 2"

bcdedit /displayorder {current} {identifier} {identifier}

to change things from this

Macrium imposed boot priotiy

MSCONFIG MACRIUM CHANGE

to this

NAME CHANGE AND ORDER

MSCONFIG

To maintain things, I was told elsewhere, that in the future, when using Macrium to do an Image restore, only restore the OS partition.

I did so, and the disk that was restored would not boot up.

The easy "fix" or workaround, for me at least, after a common 4 partition Macrium image restore, is to go into the Macrium recovery environment, choose which disk to boot with, after which when you exit all disks will again be bootable.

The problem here is that, this "fix" also completely reverses the name and boot order changes, to what they were before the changes were made.

That is what we see in the first and second images above, i.e. the default, "Windows 10, on Volume 16", is actually "Windows 3" (the disk with the lowest boot priority) in the second set of images, where "Windows 1" (Windows 10, Volume 3) is now the default.

Unless I have somehow unwittingly set this as some kind of default in Macrium, my only "guess" is that Macrium is being guided from the BIOS?

How can I process things to change the Macrium behavior in this particular case?

I just read this thread, and it mentions changing/switching what is now my my Windows 1 and Windows 2 ssd SATA connectors. I did so some time ago to make my "secondary" into the "primary" to preserve wear and tear on the previous default disk.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...disk-becomes-boot-disk.3834553/#post-23187575

 

[TerryLaze]

The easy "fix" or workaround, for me at least, after a common 4 partition Macrium image restore, is to go into the Macrium recovery environment, choose which disk to boot with, after which when you exit all disks will again be bootable.

So you are saying that this a setting that doesn't restore any image but just changes the bcdstore.
So again, you can use easybcd, or the bcd commands you used in the first place, instead of macrium to recreate the bootmenu to what you want.
My guess is that macrium does the same bcd commands but just follows the typical format and the order of disks as they are listed in the bios.

You have to understand that the boot menu for a system is on a "system partition" (official name of it) in a file called BCD, if that partition is backed up with the edited boot menu the way you like it then it will be restored to the way you like it if you back it up first and then restore it.
Now you have three of these partitions and three of these files, but only one of them is active at any one time depending on which drive you are booting from.