multiple Windows 10 entry with different icons

[Fabio Zaccaria]

Hi,
I'm using rEFInd and I'd like to get two different icons for different windows 10 installations on separate SDD, is it possible?
Thanks!

[joevt]

Include the NTFS.efi driver so rEFInd can read files from the Windows 10 instllations (and also their volume names which you can change in Windows).

In macOS, copy an icon image, get info on a FAT partition, select the icon in the Get Info window, then paste. This creates a .Volume.icns file in the root directory of the partition. In Windows, copy the icon from the FAT partitition to the root directory of the NTFS partition.

[Roderick W. Smith]

Normally, Windows will try to share one boot loader across multiple installations. To prevent that, you'll need to install the first Windows, hide the ESP from the first installation (and ideally the whole first Windows installation), install the second Windows, and then re-enable the first Windows installation. You can hide the first Windows installation by unplugging the disk or by adjusting the partition type codes.

This procedure will result in two Windows entries in rEFInd, but they'll have identical icons and, possibly, identical names. You can set unique icons in several ways, as described in the rEFInd documentation.

I do NOT recommend using the rEFInd NTFS driver. It's a bit on the flaky side -- enough so that I no longer provide a pre-compiled version. It's also unnecessary to this task.