I set up dual boot on my drive, one partition for one Windows 8 and another partition for another Windows 8. Now whenever I boot up, it will ask me which one to boot from. Which sounds good, but, I notice that whenever I choose to boot from the NON-DEFAULT partition, it will force the whole computer to restart and go through BIOS again, before proceeding to load the non-default partition. I find this very annoying, especially since my BIOS boot is slow. Is it normal? Is there a way to do a dual boot choice which will not cause the computer to boot from start of BIOS?
I belleive you can still drill down in the W8 metro boot menu & change the default OS & several other things. Use the Change Defaults button @ the bottom.
I've done that, the defaults don't fix the problem. Whenever you choose to boot from a volume that is different to the default volume (or if no default volume, the last volume you used), your computer will restart as if you pressed the power off and on button, and you have to wait for BIOS to complete again before it logs on the chosen volume.
how did you setup your DB! coz I didnt do anything special on mine; except for the fact that I have Win7 and Win8 on different partition. anytime I choose one, it just goes and launch , no rebooting. Try EASYBCD 2.1 and verify your settings or you can check msconfig and set one or the other as default ,
I had Windows 8 on one SSD. I reduced the partition size, and installed from boot (not while in Windows) another Windows 8 straight onto the unallocated space. I ended up with 3 partitions: a 350mb system partition, and two partitions containing Windows 8 separately. Whichever partition I boot into, the system drive is called C:. I intend to use one partition for work, and one for installing games and trash that could muck up the registry. Maybe the difference is due to me having a W8/W8 combo instead of your W7/W8? Is EASYBCD compatible with Windows 8, because a lot of "system tweaking" programs I am installing seem to be incompatible with it.
Yes its very annoying to restart the hole PC to enter a non default OS. But if u have a dual boot 7 and 8 u can enter to 7 and choos 8 as your default OS then you will have the old boot manager
Yes Sir Is EASYBCD compatible with Windows 8, because a lot of "system tweaking" programs I am installing seem to be incompatible with it.[/QUOTE]
[/QUOTE] I tried to get EasyBCD but it won't let me download, it asks me for a name and address, I put fake ones in, then it says Thanks for Downloading but nothing happens.
The Traditional Way To Change Default OS For Booting I use EasyBCD too because it's, well, easy. But you can also change the default OS the older way. Control Panel, System, Advanced System Settings, Startup and Recovery (click on Settings). From the dropdown list in the box at the top, select the OS you want to make the default. Then when you restart, it will boot up in the selected OS.
On Desktop. I use several OS's, each on it's own HDD. While booting, I use the BIOS Bootmanger for to chose from which HDD and therefore OS I like to start. On that way I didn't have to use some third party or other apps for to change the Boot OS. If I need to us n2 OS's side by side, I use Oracle VB, as now for to test Windows 8 Pro while Windows 8 Enterprise Eval is running on it's own HDD.
Change the order to the preferred one speeds it up. Also the "timeout" time. Save as a cmd Code: Set BCDEDIT=%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\BCDEDIT.exe :9ORDER :: 9 = Change WIM %STORE% Order cls echo. echo Ordering of items on the Boot Menu echo. set _count=1 for /f "tokens=1* usebackq skip=1" %%a in (`"%BCDEDIT% | find "identifier""`) do (call :9ORDER1 %_count%) :9ORDER1 if "%1" neq "" (set /a _count+=1 &for /f "tokens=1* usebackq skip=%_count%" %%c in (`"%BCDEDIT% | find "description""`) do (echo %_count%. %%d &goto :eof)) echo. echo Choose one you want to put into the first slot echo. set _choice= set /p _choice=Enter a number (Q to quit): if "%_choice%" equ "" goto :9ORDER if "%_choice%" equ "q" goto :START if "%_choice%" gtr "0" if %_choice% lss %_count% for /f "tokens=2 usebackq skip=%_choice%" %%a in (`"%BCDEDIT% | find "identifier""`) do (%BCDEDIT% /displayorder %%a /addfirst &goto :9ORDER)