jharris1993
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Ref: Blog entries at http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=6389
I am going to propose some changes in the 2.0.2 EasyBCD.
BUG: When you select BCD Backup/Repair --> Change Boot Drive, the drive shown is always the "C:" drive even if that is not the current location for the system store. This can be hugely confusing - even if the user has been around the block once or twice. (Go ahead, I DARE you, ask me how I figured that one out?!)
My system has two drives installed, a 120 gig drive that has 2k8Standard on it, partitioned into one 100 meg "System Reserved" partition and the rest of the drive as the "C" drive. The BCD is located on the reserved partition.
I added an 80 gig drive - and partitioned as two 40 gig partitions.
I installed 2k8Enterprise on the first 40 gig partition. EasyBCD shows this as drive "E".
The actual BCD is located on the reserved partition which was eventually labeled as "G"
If I select "change boot drive" - it always shows "C" - regardless of where the actual boot store is located. The result of this is that the user can inadvertently install multiple BCD's on the system.
Expected behavior: The initial value shown in "change boot drive" should be the actual current location of the BCD.
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Enhancement Request:
Can EasyBCD display - perhaps in the title bar - the location of the current BCD store being used? This would be especially useful if there are multiple BCD stores.
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Nice-to-have: (It'd be damned handy)
When viewing the "detailed (Debug)" BCD listing, can this be made editable somehow?
Today, (God Himself Only Knows How), I ended up with a duplicated entry in the "display order" section of the BCD. I tried removing - and recreating it - but then I had a different GUID for that entry and the "resumeobject" set to a GUID that has now been orphaned. In order to fix this, I had to jump through major hoops using BCDedit.
All of this would have been avoided if I could have simply gone in and "cut" the offending duplicate entry out.
What say ye?
Jim
I am going to propose some changes in the 2.0.2 EasyBCD.
BUG: When you select BCD Backup/Repair --> Change Boot Drive, the drive shown is always the "C:" drive even if that is not the current location for the system store. This can be hugely confusing - even if the user has been around the block once or twice. (Go ahead, I DARE you, ask me how I figured that one out?!)
My system has two drives installed, a 120 gig drive that has 2k8Standard on it, partitioned into one 100 meg "System Reserved" partition and the rest of the drive as the "C" drive. The BCD is located on the reserved partition.
I added an 80 gig drive - and partitioned as two 40 gig partitions.
I installed 2k8Enterprise on the first 40 gig partition. EasyBCD shows this as drive "E".
The actual BCD is located on the reserved partition which was eventually labeled as "G"
If I select "change boot drive" - it always shows "C" - regardless of where the actual boot store is located. The result of this is that the user can inadvertently install multiple BCD's on the system.
Expected behavior: The initial value shown in "change boot drive" should be the actual current location of the BCD.
===========================================
Enhancement Request:
Can EasyBCD display - perhaps in the title bar - the location of the current BCD store being used? This would be especially useful if there are multiple BCD stores.
===========================================
Nice-to-have: (It'd be damned handy)
When viewing the "detailed (Debug)" BCD listing, can this be made editable somehow?
Today, (God Himself Only Knows How), I ended up with a duplicated entry in the "display order" section of the BCD. I tried removing - and recreating it - but then I had a different GUID for that entry and the "resumeobject" set to a GUID that has now been orphaned. In order to fix this, I had to jump through major hoops using BCDedit.
All of this would have been avoided if I could have simply gone in and "cut" the offending duplicate entry out.
What say ye?
Jim