Change the description on a multi-boot server.

For those of use who need to have a server that can boot into multiple Operating systems, we may have an issue on the boot menu where we have different bootable operating systems with the same name. Take a look below.

I got to this by clicking Start and then right clicking Computer and selecting Properties.

In the upper left, I clicked Advanced System Properties.

On the System Properties window, I clicked the Advanced tab.

In the Startup and Recovery box, I clicked Settings…

You can see in the Default Operating System dropdown, I have two Windows Server 2008 R2 configurations listed, Which one do I want to use? Here is how to fix that.

Open an command prompt with Administrative level permissions.

Type bcdedit /enum and press Enter

We are interested in the Description and the Identifier. Since the OS that I want to change the description is the current default boot, I simply need to look for an ID of {current}.

Now type bcdedit /set {current} description “What ever you want” and press Enter

Once you are done, simply type bcdedit /enum and you will see your change. This will be reflected in the Advance System Properties and more importantly, in the boot menu.

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