Bios Boot Order list in windows

Hi,
I want to display bios boot order list in windows system without going to Bios Setup.So is there any query or command to get boot order list in windows system which is applicable to any company like hp,compaq,dell,lenova.
Thanks in Advance,
Isha Priya

UEFI utilities.
You are posting in the wrong forum. You need to post in the hardware forum for your OS.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667(v=ws.10).aspx
There is no Windows Utility to edit the boot rom. Each vendor has their own tools.
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Regarding query or code to get Bios Boot Order list display in windows

hi ,
I wAnyone can help me that i want to display bios boot order list in windows system without going to Bios Setup.So is there any query or command to get boot order list in windows system which is applicable to any company like hp,compaq,dell,lenova.
Thanks in Advance,
Isha Priya

In 64 bit with UEIF boot it is BCDEdit.
On other systems it is not possible.
There is no script for this.
bcdedit /?
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Bios boot order not persistent

Hello,
I am having problems with my nb-305 boot order. The machine will boot from SD card if I select it during boot by hitting F12. I decided to change the boot order permanently in the bios. Made the changes and hit F10. Machine booted fine from SD media. Power down and power back up. Bios forgot boot order.
Is there a way to make changes to the boot order permanent?

Hi,
The below image will show you the default boot order for Legacy since you are using Windows 7.
Toggle down (down arrow) to Legacy then F10 to accept. Once you select the HD and accept then see if the arrow keys will allow you to move the HD up in the priority selection list. You should see a Save Changes and Exit under the File topics.
On some PCs, it's not possible to change the boot order as the BIOS code is following rigid rules.
HP has set the UEFI code to load first then the legacy code. Some PCs will allow you to load one or the other and if both are loaded which is to load first.
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HP Pavilion dv5-1108ax, Windows Vista 32-bit: BIOS Boot Order does not see external eSATA HDD

I am trying to run some Linux OS (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora) from my external USB 2.0/eSATA HDD on my laptop. I can boot from a USB connection but not from an eSATA connection. Is there any chance of updating the BIOS to support booting from eSATA? Is there something I am missing in the BIOS setup menu?

No the eSata port is not bootable.

BootCamp drivers crash Windows 7, slow startup, boot order?, backup drive

I have 3 issues that may be related or possibly not related to each other. I use an iMac (currently with Leopard 10.5.8 on a completely clean installation of both Leopard and Windows 7 on a freshly formatted and partitioned drive).
Issues:
1. Before reformatting and installing Leopard and Windows 7, I tried to install Snow Leopard and then Snow Leopard Bootcamp drivers into Windows 7. This crashed Windows 7.
2. Slow startup of Windows 7 - Drivers needed?
3. Firewire backup drive never re-mounts after using WIndows and then going back to OS X.
*Details of issues*:
In the past, before I completely re-installed Leopard 10.5.8 with a new Windows 7, with this same pair of operating systems, I always had a slow startup of Windows 7 on Boot Camp. Sometimes this would take up to 6 minutes to completely open Windows 7. The "Starting Windows" message would appear usually soon, but it would tale a very long time before the Windows logo Flag would appear. The slow startup still continues, even after a complete reinstallation of these on a freshly re-formatted and re-partitioned hard drive (This re-installation was done for reasons shown below).
For a long while I have thought that because I had never installed any BootCamp drivers into Windows 7, then it might start better if I were to install the BootCamp drivers from an installation disk. Thus when I the other day briefly upgraded to Snow Leopard, this time I went ahead while operating under Windows 7 to install into my already existing Windows 7 the set of Boot Camp drivers from the Snow Leopard installation disk. The installation seemed to go well, but it then hung up and never continued when it tried to install the Intel chipset driver. An an hour had passed with no further progress. Thus I force-shutdown the computer, and Windows then never opened until I restarted under safe mode. After that when I would restart Windows 7 "normally", I found also that the Apple wireless keyboard under BootCamp no longer was recognized. The "normal" slow booting of Windows 7 still remained.
Because of I was not sure just what all might have been messed up, and because I am waiting for new versions of several programs that I use to be made as versions compatible with Snow Leopard, I reformatted the complete drive (Both partitions were merged into 1), and then I reinstalled Leopard on a freshly prepared drive, followed by newly installing Windows 7 on a new BootCamp partition. Both systems were fresh installs on a freshly prepared drive and partitions. These were not from clones of the previous installations. This time I did not try to install any drivers from the Leopard disk. The slow booting of Windows 7 continues.
Things I have suspected might cause the slow booting:
1. Boot order of the Windows partition may be set to look for a CD-ROM before booting from the Windows 7 on the BootCamp Partition. To solve this, I have tried to open the BIOS on startup of Windows 7 in order to set the boot order. I am not sure which function key to press, but in trying several, I have gotten a DOS screen that shows Windows 7 as an option, but nothing else. When I select "Advanced", I get a list that includes "Safe Mode", "Boot Logging", and other items, but not anything for boot order.
2. The drivers for BootCamp might not yet be made for Windows 7, and I need to wait until these are so that these can be installed. After such, then maybe the slow startup might be fixed?
3. Possibly my Firewire backup drive interferes (permanently?) with the Windows startup process, because after I use Windows and then go back to OS X, the backup drive (Maxtor OneTouch III firewire drive) will not load on the MacIntosh desktop until I unplug the firewire from both the computer and the Maxtor drive and unplug the power cable to the backup drive, followed by replugging all of this in. (Note: The backup drive is formatted for Macintosh and is never seen as a drive in "My Computer" or in "Network Places" when I operate Windows 7).
Are you able to help/ Thank you.
Sincerely,
Wilson

Extra comments;
I also tried the following, which did not fix the startup (*Once up, Windows works well!*):
1. Checked for file and disk errors (ckdsk?? on startup).
2. Purged temporary internet and other temporary files (using internet options and disk cleanup utilities)
3. Cleared out Prefetch files.
4. Emptied trash.
5. Under "msconfig", I found 4 items there as startup items. I disabled Adobe Reader and Quicktime helpers, leaving only thus 2 startup items of the 4 enabled (Bulldog and some Microsoft thing).
6. Defragmented.
No better results.
Sincerely,
Wilson

Re: Satellite Pro A40 - Can't find boot order in BIOS

Hi, we have a very old Satellite Pro A40 with a new hard drive.
We're tryng to change the boot order in BIOS to recognise the CD drive ready for the windows disk. However, there seems to be no option to change the BIOS boot order and yes we've tried the Toshiba route which suggests pressing C during boot up and F12 to select the drive during boot up, neither of which work.
Please can someone help?
regards
Karl
PS: The current message on the screen during boot up is BOOTMGR is missing

Hi karl1966,
Have you checked if the CD/DVD drive is recognized properly in BIOS?
Maybe your disk is scratchy and you should try another one. I dont know which disk you have used but try it with Toshiba recovery disk and Microsoft Windows disk.

T520 - Changing Boot order in BIOS

Could someone describe exactly how to change the boot order on the T520 from the BIOS? I have spent hours trying to do something that should be very straightforward and simple. Any directoin would be appreciated.
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Hi rsbonini,
I moved your post here from an old thread that was about managing UEFI BIOS boot order with scripts...
I wonder if you're being tripped up by the same thing that got me with my T420: The ">Boot" line in BIOS -> Start Up looks like a heading for the rest of the page, but it actually links to an expandable menu. (That's what the ">" is indicating, I guess). This got me and a few of my friends.
Highlight that ">"Boot" line and hit enter, and you should get the boot priority list with instructions on how to change it in the right pane.
Apologies if I've misunderstood,
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T520/T420 UEFI BIOS Management - Changing Boot order

WIth the T410/T510 I could use the SetConfig.vbs to change the boot order in BIOS. However with the newer laptops (T420, T520, X220) that have the UEFI BIOS the SetConfig.vbs doesn't seem to work. Is there another way of scripting the boot order change? I also tried running the ListAll.vbs and didn't see anything related to the boot order listed in WMI. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I tried your exact script on T520 with BIOS 1.27
1. in the case where LAN cable is connected to network with PXE server <-- system booted to LAN successfully
2. in the case where LAN cable is not connected <-- system booted to HDD after LAN boot failed to detect media
3. in the case where LAN cable is connected to network without PXE server <-- system booted to HDD after LAN boot timed out
So I could not repro any problem. What am I missing? Are you on a dock? Are there any other peripherals connected?
As for your other question, I'm sorry that I'm not following it. You can change the boot order in the Startup menu, the very first option is "Boot" where you can set any boot order you want just like previous systems.

Gaming 5 mixed legacy and uefi boot order problem

Hi,
I've got an issue with my gamin 5 mainboard regarding uefi/legacy boot order.
System setup:
. M.2 SSD (recognized as pci-e device) with a working windows 7 o.s., bootable from uefi bios.
. Normal hard drive on SATA port 1
. cd/dvd/blu-ray burner on SATA port 3 (from here on calling it the 'dvd drive')
I've tried to boot from a backup program's emergency cd to make a drive image of my ssd's O.S. partition, but the uefi cd/dvd boot option doesn't recognize the disc as being bootable. Setting it to legacy cd/dvd worked fine so that's probably because disc isn't uefi compatible. So, for that reason I've enabled the 'legacy + uefi' mode and added the legacy cd/dvd option to the top of the boot order list. Problem is, the system doesn't want to boot from the SSD anymore.
Here are some things I've tried:
When I set the boot order to: 1) uefi cd/dvd, 2) uefi windows boot manager, and NO disc in the dvd drive, the system boots from the SSD.
This is correct.
When I set the boot order to: 1) uefi cd/dvd, 2) uefi windows boot manager, and a non-uefi disc in the dvd drive, the system also boots from the SSD.
I think this is correct too because legacy cd/dvd is required to boot a legacy disc, right?
When I set the boot order to: 1) legacy cd/dvd, 2) uefi windows boot manager, and there is NO disc in the dvd drive, the system won't boot at all. Saying: "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key".
If I put a non-uefi disc in the dvd drive, the system boots from the dvd. The backup software also recognized all devices, including the SSD.
And if I go to the bios boot menu (F11), I can select the uefi windows boot manager and the system correctly boots into the O.S.
In 'the old days' , having a boot order like that, the system would skip an empty dvd drive and continue on to the next item in the boot priority list. Somehow, this system does not.
What am I doing wrong here?
I do have an old bios though. v1.2. Although looking at the descriptions of the newer bios versions, I don't see any mention regarding this issue.

I don't have an answer for you, I too wonder why the bios doesn't just skip a bootable device if it's empty.
I had to use a UEFI USB key to update bios and figured to leave it as the first boot after updating for further updates and I received the same message so had to move the UEFI USB back down the line.
Not the same as the old days Bios I guess.
When it's looking for the boot device it needs to see it or else.

Having difficulty in Win 8.1 changing boot order drive at the Bios level

My desktop computer has 32GB of DDR3-1600Mhz Memory plus a 128GB SSD boot drive "C" and 2 2TB SATA drives and finally a 1TB Sata drive.
My problem is that the 128GB SSD drive is maxed out space wise. I want to change the boot drive to the 1TB drive, but when I go into the Bios, and slect "Boot Order" it only lists two CD Rom drives and "Windows Boot Manager". If i go out to look at available drives, it shows all my drives. How the heck can I select the 1TB drive to become the boot drive if its not even listed under "Boot Drives"?
Using disk partitioning software, it advises that before copying everything over from the boot SSD drive to the new 1 TB drive, I should change the boot drive so that when it starts up again, it will go directly to the correct drive.
Thanks so much,
Ken

That is impressive for a OEM. However, I think it is probably not a good idea to try to make a different drive the boot drive. Typically with a unit set up like that, the SSD is only used for essentially the OS and special programs that need the extra speed of the SSD. Then use the other drives for data and nonessential ( for speed ) software. About the only advice I can give is to reassess the way software is installed to get some things off the SSD or replace the SSD with a larger capacity unit. I think switching boot drives will be a nightmare you will not enjoy.
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Changing Boot Order on Dual Boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu

Hi there,
Recently got a HP Pavilion g6 2213sa which came with Windows 8 (spit!) and this disgusting UEFI BIOS replacement (double spit!).
Anyway, I need to dual boot Ubuntu on my system, so I installed Ubuntu. Normally, on a non UEFI system, a "Grub" bootloader installed by Linux would take over the startup process, and allow you to choose between either Windows 8 or Ubuntu on startup.
However, on this computer, startup is just booting straight to Windows 8 despite the fact that Ubuntu and Grub IS installed.
Now, upon startup, if I press F9, then I get to change the boot-device on a one-time basis. I can either select "OS Boot Manager", which loads Windows 8, or "Ubuntu" which loads the Grub bootloader which allows me to select Windows 8 or Ubuntu.
However, when I press F10 to enter the Bios Setup with the intention of changing the boot order permanently, the Ubuntu option isn't there. Instead it has OS Manager, USB Disk, CD Rom, USB CD Rom and Network Card.
Thanks, HP for, the crappily designed BIOS.
Anyway, can anyone PLEASE provide me a way of changing the boot order so that GRUB is loaded first and NOT this crap Windows 8 rubbish (that I would happily bin if I didn't need it for work).

There is the same problem in HP 2000 laptops (in my case specifically, HP 2000-2D22DX). I did some investigation using trial and error, and this is what I found out:
There is some sort of a "recovery feature" or so that on every boot sets the very first UEFI load option to point to one of the two locations, in this order:
\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi
This option is displayed as "OS boot Manager" (for the first path) and something akin to "UEFI partition" for the second path, completely ignoring the actual name given to it (when you look at the EFI variables through efibootmgr, you can see that what is displayed as "OS boot Manager" actually is set to the name "Windows Boot Manager"; why anyone would do such renaming is beyond me). If you try to change the boot order so that this slot isn't the first, the UEFI will overwrite the BootOrder variable on next boot and reset it to point to "OS boot Manager" anyway.
By default, both of the paths above contain the same Microsoft bootloader (if you check the md5sum of both, you'll see they match).
So, until HP releases an updated UEFI that allows turning this "feature" off or rearranging boot options through the F10 UEFI setup, this is what you can do to get dual boot with the least amount of hackiness:
In Windows, mount the UEFI partition (mountvol S: /S mounts it as the S: drive) and copy the file \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi to use some other name (for example, I copied it to "\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi~", but you can change the name to anything else).
In the Windows command prompt, update the Windows UEFI entry to point to the new name: bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi~ (adapt to your set name accordingly).
Optionally, change the name of the Windows boot loader so that you would be certain that it points to the new file location: bcdedit /set {bootmgr} description "Fixed Windows path"
Install the other OS. In my case the bootloader was installed into \EFI\opensuse\grubx64.efi.
Delete the two files, \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi and \EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi.
Use efibootmgr to delete the "OS boot Manager" entry: sudo efibootmgr -b 0000 -B
Set the new OS bootloader to be the default bootloader by using efibootmgr with the -o option. In my case, I had an entry called "opensuse" in slot Boot0001 and the updated path Windows entry in slot Boot0002, so I had to do sudo efibootmgr -o 0001,0002
Update GRUB to point the Windows entry to your renamed file (you'll have to create a new file in /etc/grub.d and rerun grub-mkconfig).
And that's it, now the UEFI will boot GRUB by default (it won't regenerate the "OS boot Manager" entry since it won't be able to find either of the two hardcoded paths and will "fall back" to properly reading the BootOrder variable), and the F9 menu will still allow choosing to boot Windows directly.

U300s: Cannot access BIOS to change boot order

I was dual booting Windows 8.1 Update and Ubnutu 14.04
From the windows disk manager I deleted all Ubuntu partitions and rebooted my notebook. I was immediatlly present with the grub rescue promt. Normally this is a quick and easy fix, by booting a windows USB/CD and repairing the windows MBR.
My problem is I can't access the bios or the boot menu to change the boot order. Nothing I've tried has let me get into the bios to set my USB stick as the first boot option.
Using the small recovery key button on the side of the notebook which normally boots the notebook to the screen where you can choose which drive to boot does the same as the power button. There is no bios flash screen or abililty to press any keys before getting to the grub screen.
I've drained the battery and left over night hoping this would reset the state it seems to be stuck in but that also did nothing.
Here is a short video showing what happens when I boot the notebook http://youtu.be/2FpC2Deuawk

peavers wrote:
I was dual booting Windows 8.1 Update and Ubnutu 14.04
From the windows disk manager I deleted all Ubuntu partitions and rebooted my notebook. I was immediatlly present with the grub rescue promt. Normally this is a quick and easy fix, by booting a windows USB/CD and repairing the windows MBR.
My problem is I can't access the bios or the boot menu to change the boot order. Nothing I've tried has let me get into the bios to set my USB stick as the first boot option.
Using the small recovery key button on the side of the notebook which normally boots the notebook to the screen where you can choose which drive to boot does the same as the power button. There is no bios flash screen or abililty to press any keys before getting to the grub screen.
I've drained the battery and left over night hoping this would reset the state it seems to be stuck in but that also did nothing.
Here is a short video showing what happens when I boot the notebook http://youtu.be/2FpC2Deuawk
I think the problem is in deleting Ubuntu. According to this video after the deletion of the Ubuntu partitions they must be combined back to the Windows partition.

Set player / CD / DVD external (USB) in the "boot order" BIOS

Greetings to all! A short buy an external burner ... I "studied" the items in the BIOS of my pc in regard to boot ...
that's how I set
boot options
CD-ROM BOOT <enabled>
BOOT FLOPPY <enabled>
Internal Network Adaptor Boot <disabled>
BOOT ORDER
USB FLOPPY
INTERNAL CD7DVD ROM DRIVE
LAPTOP HARD DRIVE
DISKETTE KEY ON USB / USB HARD DRIVE
! NETWORK ADAPTER
With all these "items" listed according to you, you can connect an external burner and if so, which item should be inserted as "primary"? Boot Options section remains unchanged? Consequently cambiarà only section. Boot Order?
Thanks in advance!

Hello ettore88. I understand that you're wanting to boot from this external (USB) CD drive. Is this correct?
Most notebooks do not support this functionality so it is unlikely that you can boot from this external CD drive.
I suggest leaving the boot order as it is. That way if you ever need to boot from CD/Floppy the option is already there. As long as you do not have a bootable disc in either drive when trying to turn your notebook on you shouldn't see any problems.
If I misunderstood your question or if you have more questions just let me know. Have a great day!
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Satellite L750 BIOS trouble - cannot change boot order

Hello reader/answerer of my questions,
I am having some trouble with my 750 ODN's bios. This bios was an official update (3.6) from the support centre, and almost everything has been fine since (the plot thickens!). I decided one day I wanted to dual boot with linux, in particular Fedora (this is not related to it though).
But, when I burned the disc and tried to live boot (too test it out) I found that the boot order was set to hard drive first! I rebooted and pressed f12 - didn't work.
I tried delete and escape - neither worked. I then tried all the f keys - none of them worked.
Every time it took me to Windows boot menu, and I explored that and I couldn't find anything.
It's also worth mentioning I am running Win 7 SP1.
I tried both PLoP and osloader (too boot from the dvd) - neither worked.
I also can't remember what the key to start the bios was originally - oops!
Also the toshiba logo with instructions never appears.
I would really just like too change the boot order though, the rest of the bios I don't need access too right now.
A separate issue is that Windows randomly decides it wants to check my hard drive, which takes ages, and it won't give up until it gets to check it. I think it may need some medical help.
But, any help, from a qualified doctor or not, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Mitchell

Hi
> I also can't remember what the key to start the bios was originally - oops!
Pressing F2 while powering up the unit would help you to access the BIOS.
But you dont need to change the booting order within the BIOS. You can do that by pressing F12. This should be done immediately after you have powered up the notebook.
Then the boot menu would appear and you could choose the right boot device.
Does it functions?

BIOS Changed Boot Order By Itself

I have a Pavilion H8-1360t. When I got it in March I installed a Samsung SSD. I copied the original Hard Drive to the SSD and made the SSD my boot drive. I also swapped the SATA ports becasue the HDD was on the high speed on. For the next 4 months I've been booting every morning and shutting down at night with no problems. The SSD boots quick and again, no problems. The SSD was my C drive and the original HDD was now my F. I only used it for Ghost backups of the C drive. I also Ghost to an external USB3 drive.
This morning when I booted I noticed that all my icons were missing as was all my data and all my programs I had installed. AFter some research I found, in the Computer display of my system, that my SSD was now the F drive and the original HDD was now my C drive. So I was booting using the original HDD that came with the system.
I tried to figure out how to tell the BIOS to boot from the SSD as it had been, but I cannot figure out which drive in the display list is it and besides that I want it to do that by default. I'd also like to know how or why the PC decided to reassign thedrive letters and boot from the HDD now.
HP refuses to help saying that since I have user installed devices they do not have the tools to help. They also cannot tell me how to get the Boot Order changed. But even if I could do that, and I've tried going into BIOS setup and Boot Priority, I cannot get it to boot using the SSD. HP suggested I go to some third party. But there's got to be a solution I can do. My last choice would be to copy the entire SSD to the HDD (the SSD id only 500GB and the HDD is a Terrabyte). I assume then that when it would boot from the HDD the data I copied over to it (using Ghost) would make it look then like the SSD did. My loss would be speed but at least I'd have critical data that I now cannot access.
I am really up the creek right now Any ideas?
Thanks

I took the PC to Fry's. They think there's a problem with the SSD. Even though I am able to see it and to move data off of it, there is some problem during boot that tells W7 and BIOS that is cannot boot and that is what is causing the system to then look for another boot drive. It then finds the hard drive, which came with the system and is connected, and is bootable, and thus it boots from that drive and also remaps the drive letters, effectively swapping the C and F between the SSD and HDD.
Now I am trying to move all my data to the HDD, install Office and other programs, and just boot to the HDD until I can get the SSD examined for problems and a new one, if necessary, put in.
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