How to rename "EFI Boot" to "Windows" on the Mac
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ย. 2020
- This is an irritant for some people like me who use multiple drives and partitions. Since all Windows and/or Linux boot partitions show up as "efi boot" on the Mac startup, it is desirable to change the name on startup so we can easily figure out which partition is which.
For some, it is merely the aesthetic value, but, in either case, being able to change the EFI boot name is generally desirable.
Let us see how to do this on the Mac for installers and then how to change the same once we are booted into Windows on the Mac.
Generally, since we would format the Windows partition to NTFS, we have to use a small workaround in Windows to change the boot name for the Mac.
In this video, we will see how to go about the name change...
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You are a star. This was bugging me so much! Thank you very much for the simple and detailed explanation.
Glad it helped!
You did it! Phenomenal walkthrough!
Not sure why you are the only one providing this information, but good job. I actually followed the steps for Windows with NTFS partition for my ArchLinux installation because I couldn't mount my ArchLinux partition on the Mac. I have a feeling that I could have done this differently by mounting the mac's efi, but this way worked so thanks!
It was a always a pain with just the plain labels on all. I recently got a new iMac and made new installs and made a video on it thinking there might be others like me...
Brilliant tutorial. Cheers for sharing.
this worked great to label a boot partition for an embedded Linux distro - thank you! 🙏🏼
Worked perfectly! Great tutorial, thanks!
Glad it helped!
Hello sir, Im using dual boot which is mac os bigsur and win10. In the boot menu, they named as Windows & Mac OS. The problem is my removeable drive also named as Windows. It's exFat but still I can't make any change on it.
For rename "Uefi Boot" of open core patcher ? help me, i have installed Monterey succesly whit open core and now in the boot appared 2 option Uefi boot end hd Mac.
Thank you for the detailed tutorial. I have 2 questions:
1. If this installer is to be used in both Mac and PC/ Windows Laptop, will these commands cause any problems during installation in other devices?
2. Can you tell us how to change the name in case of a bootable Windows Disk (external SSD)?
Can you please explain how to rename the disks upon boot up? In an easy way maybe with out having to use the bless command? When my max starts up and I have a choice of which disk to boot up from, both disks have the same name and only once I’m booted into each disk is the name change obvious. Otherwise upon boot, they are both still named the same. Can you please show how to change this? Thanks
Brilliant ! The next challenge of course is the icon :)
Ah well...Maybe sometime... :)
Hi, I tried this and it worked very well on windows running on my mac mini. Now I want to try it on Ubuntu running on the same machine and external SSD but I cant seem to install Ubuntu correctly. Can you please make a tutorial on how you installed Ubuntu 20 on an external drive? I would appreciate that very much because I have been trying to install it and keep getting a fatal error after installing it. Thank you in advance!
你好，我有一个多合一的系统启动优盘，我想请教一下，怎么更改MAC OS安装盘的显示名字
Thanks
only fat32 partition can mount in mac os
This really helps, but it only works on external drives. The thing for me is that, I have a mac pro which I can install sata drives, and I have two installs of win 10, and during boot they all shows up as "windows" and have same icon, even after using bless tool to the efi partition, they don't change anything. Any suggestions?
After some testing, I figured out it is possible to changed internal drives' label as well, using the method in the video. BUT, bootcamp volume which is attached internally can't be changed in current firmware.
If my guesses are correct, when there is a "EFI/Microsoft" boot manager exist alongside the "EFI/Boot" bootloader, Apple's boot selector will automatically override the label to "Windows" and its icon to default bootcamp volume icon (providing the drive is internally attached, this does not affect external drive).
so i ended up messing with mini tool partition wizard on bootcamp windows on my mac and now when i was to log off windows and boot into macbook i dont have the macbook option, any help would be appreciated
There are a couple of things you could try...Reset the NVRAM (CMD-OPT-P-R at startup) to see if that helps. Second is to go into the recovery mode (CMR+R at startup) and perhaps re-install the Mac OS from there if nothing else works.
Hi Nitin, please give your opinion on this, stack exchange question 410374 he claims you can write to the efi partition from OS and no need to boot into windows, surely the EFI partition isn't NTFS?
MacOS cannot write to NTFS partitions, although, there is a work-around that might work...Try mounty.app
You can use Hasleo WintoUsb to do all this very easily in a windows vm and using macdrive.
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My windows boot drives for mp3,1/4,1/5,1 are separate drives and MBR.
Is there a way to change names in Boot menu with these?
Having several windows versions on different drives they all are listed as "Windows", so I don't know which version I'm booting from. And, of course mp's internal slots are not hot swappable.
Have not tried that, but, might be similar...
iBook: I AM NOT A WINBOOK!!!!
Windows: I AM NOT A MAC
Thanks!!!!
Welcome!
bro how to add more drive on boot screen bro? because i saw a lot of videos that they have efi and windows but i only have efi,,so how to add the windows driver bro??plzz reply
The OS adds the drives it finds bootable. We only look at how to rename those where possible to make it easier.
This is ideal... Thank you for the instructions. Now if only I can change the icon to the OS Logo....
Glad it helped! I did try the stock OS X installer icon files, but, they were not picked up. Did not spend time to figure that out...
I think I accidentally deleted my Macintosh hd , it doesn’t appear only 2 efi boot drivers, what do I do please ???
You can always reinstall MacOS from a USB or using Internet recovery on startup. I generally delete the MacHD and reformat (erase) when I do a fresh install. It should not be a problem excepting some time wasted on the reinstallation.
Now that I have deleted the windows partition, the boot screen still shows windows as an option to boot that's followed by the blue screen. How can I remove the windows files all together? Should I delete the .disk_label file or the .disk_label_2x file??
Will that work? If not, please help me with a solution.
Just remove the partition that was created for windows and the transfer to it from Bootcamp. Running Bootcamp might detect and do that by itself.
The windows partition was removed, since I did the efi installation, uninstalling windows through bootcamp wasn't being successful. I just removed the label files (🤞🏽) and it worked. The macbook booted right into MacOS. Thank you! ☺️
How did u make the multi boot installer?
No, that is the MacOS boot system. I just customized it a bit to be more clear.
It seems to me this video is about changing the name of the usb installers first, duplicate some files and then be able to change the name of the windows 10 partition. Is it possible to simply change the name EFI boot to windows 10 pro without having to use a usb installation disk? Either way, great video. Thank you for posting this
Yes, it is possible and that was one of the points. Just search the OS partition (Windows or Linux) for the efi boot files and use bless on the mac on the folder containing those files. You can also use a Paragon NTFS trial version if needed and do that to NTFS partitions from the mac. There are some partitions that might be hidden from the mac Disk Utility, but, can be displayed and mounted from the command line if needed.
I tried to keep this as simple as I could :)
Thank you for your reply. I will rewatch the video with more attention and patience. Admiration and respect from Port au Prince Haiti! I will subscribe to your channel. Take care!
thanks
easy to follow
Do you know how to change the icons too???
Thanks! No, did not get around to the icons once I had this worked out...
Hello! Great Tutorial !
I have a question....is it possible to rename EFI BOOT to WINDOWS 10 ? I have a lot of operating systems into the same external drive!
Yes, you can name it to anything you want. Just use the Mac OS bless command to create the label files and put them in the EFI boot drive as shown in the video.
@@NCDSLRPls help. I have installed windows 10 using EFI Boot but now to boot into windows, I see EFI Boot and Macintosh. is it possible to rename it now after installing windows? I don't find EFI boot older in Bootcamp partition for windows and I can't write on it from MacOS since its now NTFS.
@@xplorexplor Yes, that is possible and that is how I have done it in the video. Do check out the last part where I boot into Windows and mount the drive to replace the files to change the boot name.
@@NCDSLR NO YOU HAVE NOT. This tutorial ist just "per Disk" but not per Volume. If on one Disk (and therefore one EFI) are multiple systems, how do I edit each individually?
This is confusing. Someone needs to make an app that you can just change the names and icons eazy. All this technical hocus pockus, tried this with my windows 7 partition, but it’s not EFI on the windows side. That and cannot assign drive letter to a partition like win 10. Did something now won’t show the windows option, luckily i have an image before doing any of this.
I just shared how I got around this issue and unless you have a very specific requirement, you can install the different OSs in a VM with whatever name you want. In fact, since we do not have bootcamp drivers on the Apple Silicon, this is no longer applicable on that...
How do you change the name on Mac installers?
Some OS’s show yellow drive, with something like “install OS X” want to change the name to version OS I’m installing (MacOS Lion)
Have not tried that...Will check and see if I have a copy of some which say "X"...