Install EasyBCD on every OS?

No, just the main one. Accessing it via Windows Explorer you can make shortcuts on the other OS’s desktops.
 
Okay thanks. Can I safely remove all the OS boot entries on the second OS and remove the program? Now I have two bootloaders in the bios. I assume the one on the other OS will stay active. Otherwise I won't have a boot menu anymore.
 
There is no need to remove boot entries. Simply uninstall EasyBCD from the other OS’s. I don’t encourage meddling with actual BCD files in Windows as it can lead to all kinds of trouble.
 
Hi, I saw this post so thought I would continue on this rather than starting a new thread. I have installed easy BCD on 2 of my windows OS in my partitioned SSD. I have it on my regular C drive (win11) and also on my P drive (win10). I also had a few other bootable partitions but never installed it on those.

So my problem started when I devided to edit easyBCD on P drive, and removed the option for booting P drive in there and just left it to boot into C drive.
When editing easyBCD in C drive, I added all my other partitions like I normally do and then restarted the laptop. To my surprise it booted straight into C drive Win11. I tried this so many times with same result. I tried to reset bcd configuration and also recreate/repair. This never helped.
I tried to restore a backed up file and that never worked.

I have spent all day trying to repait the bcd via command prompt and still in the same position. I think for some reason that P drive is not allowing any changes to the boot.

Problem is I can't boot into P anymore to fix my problem. I also opened easyBCD from P drive in windows explorer but that also didn't help.

This is from cmd promt.

C:\Windows\System32>bcdedit /enum

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
displayorder {current}
timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 10 Home
locale en-US
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {013a3d48-c681-11ef-902c-806e6f6e6963}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard



This is from easyBCD

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
default {6c0231a1-c67b-11ef-9025-60e9aa2c4628}
resumeobject {4bd7e1a2-c236-11ef-9eda-b9117854aff9}
displayorder {531c46d8-a213-11ef-bc10-bee3022c57bf}
{6c0231a1-c67b-11ef-9025-60e9aa2c4628}
{abc88873-c5ed-11ef-84a0-60e9aa2c4628}
{531c46e1-a213-11ef-bc10-bee3022c57bf}
{d0f8c1ae-c697-11ef-9034-60e9aa2c4628}
toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout 30

Firmware Application (101fffff)
-------------------------------
identifier {531c46d8-a213-11ef-bc10-bee3022c57bf}
description EFI USB Device
custom:250000c2 1

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {6c0231a1-c67b-11ef-9025-60e9aa2c4628}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 11
locale en-US
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
bootmenupolicy Standard

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {abc88873-c5ed-11ef-84a0-60e9aa2c4628}
device partition=H:
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description New PIWIS
locale en-US
osdevice partition=H:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {d485dd41-c5ed-11ef-84f0-806e6f6e6963}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {531c46e1-a213-11ef-bc10-bee3022c57bf}
device partition=M:
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Mercedes Benz
locale en-US
osdevice partition=M:
systemroot \Windows
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {d0f8c1ae-c697-11ef-9034-60e9aa2c4628}
device partition=P:
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description piwis old
locale en-US
osdevice partition=P:
systemroot \Windows
bootmenupolicy Standard




Is there any way I can possibly resolve this? I am hoping I do not have to reinstall windows on C drive again as when I do, it takes google drive about 1 week to upload all my data there.

Thank you
 

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It should be installed only on one drive. You can then go into the other drives and open it & put on your desktop a shortcut to the .exe that’s in the EasyBCD folder.
 
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