List of Bootable Partitions will not Update

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danboone

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I have about 20 bootable partitions on multiple drives (Windows 10). I load EasyBCD and rearrange the order of the list of bootable partitions and/or add a new bootable partition to the list. I save the changes. I reboot. The HP boot routine shows an old list of bootable partitions, without some of the changes I have made. Curiously, the HP boot routine does show the change, if I merely changed the order of the partitions. But it does not show any new bootable partitions I have added to this list. I thought maybe the list was too long, so I deleted several of the old partitions from the list. Still, the HP boot routine does not show the new partitions I have added to the list.

I have read other threads in this forum. Yes, each of the new bootable partitions had a drive letter when I added it to the list.
 
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Have you scrolled down the boot menu ?
I seem to recall this from many years back and it being a restriction of how many items the boot menu was programed to display on its default low resolution graphics driver.
 
With so many systems, there's a possibility you're updating a BCD which is not the one actually being used to boot your PC.
Check that you don't have anything specified in EasyBCD > Tools > Options > "Automatically load..." field or alternatively use EasyBCD > File > Load System BCD
 
As Terry mentioned, there is a limit to the number of entries that can be shown on the old/normal dos-based boot menu; I can't remember if scrolling works around that or not off the top of my head. Changing the order of entries to bring a currently missing one to the top would show if that's the problem or not.

But usually when you have the issue of changes not being reflected it's because you are editing the MBR BCD but loading via EFI or the other way around.
 
Thanks for responding. A limit on the number of entries does not explain the problem. As noted above, I deleted several entries before adding one. The added one does not show up in the list displayed during booting. Also, I know that I am editing the MBR BCD and am booting with MBR, not EFI. But thank you for thinking about the problem.
 
What is the nature of the entries you are adding? If you see them on the HP boot screen and not the Windows boot screen, then it has to be the EFI bootloader records that are being loaded and displayed because the MBR boot records do not integrate with the OEM boot menu.
 
I now used the BIOS to change the boot order of the drives. Now the newly added items are showing up. I managed somehow to get both System and Boot on the same partition, which is what I have desired. Thanks to all for working on this.
 
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