With Bootit- what is making multiple microsoft.001 efi entries
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:39 pm
I've seen multiple posts with my same question, but all so far seem to be with multiple operating systems installed on the system.
I only have one windows installed. BIU has 2 menu entries one for biu itself, and one for microsoft os.
the system seems to operate fine, except when windows has some fixes to install, and requires a reboot.
At the install reboot, I get this blue selection menu that asks what system do I want to start. All entries list the exact same names and numbers.
This list has grown over that months, to 14 entries over 2 pages. I finally looked into the efi partition. There I found entries for microsoft.001, microsoft.002, .... microsoft.014. All appear to be the same, and seem to correspond to the number of selections on the selection menu. (By the way, clicking on any one of the 14 OS selections appears to do the same thing. Sometimes continuing the installation of fixes, or just starting windows.)
Someday I would like to add a Linux installation to my system, but want to make sure that I've created the first correctly.
I am using the rename option. Have I configured something wrong? Any suggestions? And what is creating these .00n items -> Terabyte or Microsoft?
I only have one windows installed. BIU has 2 menu entries one for biu itself, and one for microsoft os.
the system seems to operate fine, except when windows has some fixes to install, and requires a reboot.
At the install reboot, I get this blue selection menu that asks what system do I want to start. All entries list the exact same names and numbers.
This list has grown over that months, to 14 entries over 2 pages. I finally looked into the efi partition. There I found entries for microsoft.001, microsoft.002, .... microsoft.014. All appear to be the same, and seem to correspond to the number of selections on the selection menu. (By the way, clicking on any one of the 14 OS selections appears to do the same thing. Sometimes continuing the installation of fixes, or just starting windows.)
Someday I would like to add a Linux installation to my system, but want to make sure that I've created the first correctly.
I am using the rename option. Have I configured something wrong? Any suggestions? And what is creating these .00n items -> Terabyte or Microsoft?