I have set up Easy BCD to boot to Windows 11 as the C: drive. Then I have another Windows 11 installed as backup on D: drive. E: is my CD player. F: is Windows 10. Windows 8.1 is G: drive. It has not been coming up with the option of selecting which drive I want to boot in, or it goes to the Windows black screen option to choose. What am I doing wrong? I want the software to give me the options of what drive to boot to. Can anyone tell me something to help?
Getting Easy BCD to boot correctly
- Thread starter dj201595
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Sounds like your BCD entries aren’t actually being written to the active/system partition. EasyBCD only edits the BCD that your system boots from, not the one on C: or D:.
A few quick checks:
Make sure the “System / Active” partition is the one EasyBCD is editing.
In Disk Management, look for the drive marked System, Active. That’s where the real BCD lives.
Run EasyBCD as admin and re-add each OS entry manually (don’t rely on auto-detect).
Turn off Fast Boot / Fast Startup in Windows — it sometimes bypasses the boot menu.
Set the timeout in EasyBCD → “Edit Boot Menu” to something like 5–10 seconds so the menu actually shows.
UEFI systems: make sure the entries aren’t being overwritten by Windows Boot Manager in BIOS. Sometimes BIOS keeps resetting it.
Most of the time, the issue is #1 — you’re editing the wrong BCD store.
