Windows 10: Change Windows 10 boot order without UEFI/BIOS

I am running a Macbook pro with dual boot. I never use my OS X side, and so I set my computer to boot into Windows at startup and all is well. Or was well, until today, I got a new SSD for Christmas and migrated the data from my old drive to the new one. I then extended the partitions (old drive was smaller than the new one) and everything checks out in disk manager.

So now I want to boot into this new drive, but I cannot for the life of me get it to do so. I used the boot camp control panel on the Windows side, and selected the new drive as the drive to boot from. After restarting, I am still booting into the old drive. I went on the OS X side and tried changing boot order there. But what do I see under the system preferences? Two bootable volumes called "Mac" and two bootable volumes called "Bootcamp". It doesn't show me the drive letters (such as C: or D, so it's like I have no idea which of these options is the newly installed drive.

Now unfortunately, since this is a Macbook, there is no UEFI/BIOS to boot into to change boot order. This sucks because that is how I've always done this process to do what I am trying to accomplish. Is there any other ways to change boot order on Windows 10 without booting into UEFI/BIOS? I would think there'd be at least a CMD prompt option, but I can't find anything on Google. This would be simple as simple can be if the OS X side showed the drive names instead of some generic titles they want to label each partition/drive as.

Edit: So I decided to change the name of the new partition to boot from. Instead of the default "Bootcamp" I named it "Bootcamp2". Went into OS X side, changed startup disk to Bootcamp2, restarted, and it's still booting straight into my old drive. What in the hell.

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Windows 10 random automatic repair after changing boot priority.

Hello. So i have an Windows 10 Pro. Sometimes when i am changing in bios boot order from USB to HDD ( SDD ) windows starts booting with AUTOMATIC REPAIR and then restarting. Is this something with BIOS \ Windows 10 bug related? Tested on pc and on laptop , and sometimes it doing the same.


Situation on PC first,listen:

Few days ago after i change boot in UEFI BIOS from USB to SSD.
Then Windows 10 showed at 1 boot Automatic Repair.
When starting Windows 10 boot loader starts by "preparing automatic repair" and diagnosing pc.
Interesting is that if I restart Windows (after procedure mentioned earlier) it will boot normally. This startup problem was occured only when starting system again after shutdown or restarted pc from windows.So i was needed 2 boots to boot properly to windows.
But on pc, format was needed to remove completely issue and after format is fine.

Pc :
2x8gb Kingston Hyperx 1600mhz DDR3
SSD samsung Evo 250 gb
4790k stock
Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 with UEFI BIOS


Now laptop with old standard bios:
On laptop i made the same operation, change boot from USB to HDD and on first boot Windows 10 shows Automatic Repair. But it happened once and i cant reproduce. No format was needed.

laptop is very old with 2gb ram

Why on pc format was needed when on laptop not?



Thanks for suggestions.

 

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• Settings
• Update and Security
• Recovery - Restart Now
• Troubleshoot
• Advanced Options
• UEFI Firmware Settings
• Restart

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