Timeline for Installing Windows to flash UEFI/ BIOS, then reinstalling Ubuntu
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| Aug 18, 2019 at 19:37 | comment | added | gronostaj | @whitelightning EFI System Partition | |
| Aug 18, 2019 at 19:24 | comment | added | whitelightning | @gronostaj what does ESP stand for? | |
| Aug 15, 2019 at 9:47 | comment | added | gronostaj | @whitelightning I am saying that this partition contains complete boot configuration for installed OSes. As long as you have a full disk backup, including ESP, restoring it will also restore previous boot configuration. Updating UEFI doesn't affect those files, so it's a sound plan to 1) full backup, 2) wipe and install Windows, 3) update UEFI, 4) restore backup. | |
| Aug 14, 2019 at 17:51 | comment | added | whitelightning | @gronostaj When I install Ubuntu, there is an EFI system partition, uses fat32 file system. The Ubuntu installation automatically creates that. You are saying that we don't want that moved over, right? | |
| Aug 14, 2019 at 6:19 | comment | added | gronostaj | @whitelightning Boot configuration is stored on the disk on a EFI System Partition, so restoring disk image will revert those changes as well. But if you want to do it fast, use Clonezilla for imaging, not dd. Clonezilla will only backup used space. | |
| Aug 14, 2019 at 6:15 | comment | added | jpa | Considering that full disc backups take several hours, this is hardly "most time efficient". Even opening the laptop and changing the drive would be faster. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 22:31 | comment | added | whitelightning | My understanding is that when I install a new UEFI, there are some things that need to change, regarding other parts of the system. I believe the bootloader is one of them. So don't we need a way to naturally create some of the "install" files? | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 19:25 | history | answered | Zeiss Ikon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |