Windows 7 How to edit/rename boot menu entries? Hide other Win7 primary partitions?

pstein

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On my computer I have 3 primary partitions:

1. "System reserve" which contains e.g.the Bootmamanger and MBR
2. First Win 7 installation ("main")
3. Second Win 7 installation ("reserve")

When I boot now at first the Bootmanager on the first primary partition is called/started which in turn starts the boot menu. In the boot menu there are currently two entries:

Windows 7
Windows 7

So I cannot distinguish between the "main" and the "reserve" Win 7 installation.

How exactly can I modify/rename the two "Windows 7" entries in boot menu?

Second question:

After selecting and booting the actual Windows 7 installation the other Windows 7 installation is visible as a separate partition in WinExplorer:

C: running Windows 7
D: DVD drive
E: other (non-booted) Windows 7

How can I automatically hide the other Windows 7 installation?
The drive E: should be available e.g. for USB sticks or network drives.

Peter
 
Under Control Panel go to System -> Advanced -> "Startup and Recovery"

Disable "Time to display list of operating systems"

The only other way would be to use bcdedit in the command-console, which can be quite time consuming. This is much more likely to work. As you have probably noticed, there is no specific boot.ini file in Windows 7 and it has been replaced with the bcdedit utility.
 
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