How can I make Windows boot first and Ubuntu second? [duplicate]

Question

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How do I set Windows to boot as the default in the boot loader?

How can I make Windows boot first?

Answer 1

sudo su
cd /etc/grub.d/
mv 40_custom 08_custom
update-grub

this will pull Windows entry in the boot loader on top

Answer 2

(When I searched "make windows boot first" in the askubuntu search box, I had trouble finding a post that answered this question, so I'll answer it here).

I'm going to presume that you are using grub (if you don't know what it is, you are probably using it).

You can change the boot order by editing the menu.lst file located in /boot/grub/.

When you look into menu.lst, you want to scroll down to blocks of text that look something like the following:

title        ....
root         ....
kernel       ....
...
initrd       ....

The block that begins with

title        Windows ...
...

Is the windows entry that shows up on boot. If you want this to be both the first and default entry, you can copy the entire block of text, and paste it just right before the first "title ..." block.

You will have to do this as root (so try gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst and make the edits). When you reboot, by default you will boot into windows. Note that because reading Linux filesystems from Windows requires more setup, it is probably best to do this in Linux.

Edit:

Actually after a little more searching, I think the suggestion in this post is probably a lot safer.