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How to know if my BIOS supports UEFI?
I recently bought a new Dell notebook for my girlfriend and I want to know if the computer comes with a UEFI BIOS, unfortunately I didnt find any information in the manual or on Windows, is there some ...
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I want to expand a partition on my boot SSD, but there is a Recovery Partition and EFI System Partition in the way. How can I get around this?
Here is a screenshot in Windows Disk Management showing the partition layout on my disk:
I wish to expand the Windows partition (C:\ drive, "Boot") into the 16 GB of unallocated space. However, ...
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How do I remove an EFI System partition from a drive in Windows 7?
I have an external HD which used to be my TimeMachine drive. I got a different drive for that, so I want the original drive back as an external on my Windows box, but it has this random 200 MB ...
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How to hide EFI-partition?
For some sort of reason my EFI-partition shows up in disk management as well as This PC.
Is there a way to hide again without messing up my system? Preferably by command line (diskpart).
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Do I need to re-install windows 8 to enable UEFI?
I know that UEFI provides for much faster boot up speeds, but as of right now it is disabled in my BIOS. Should I enable it and it'll switch over auto-magically?
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How do edit the contents of my BIOS boot list?
So the other day I installed Windows 7 on a GPT disk. It works fine. Today I went to boot off my Linux Live USB and I noticed Windows Boot Manager was in the list. I use a traditional BIOS and it ...
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installing 32-bit windows: diskpart convert mbr error
I have an efi-based 64 bit system with win 8 pre-installed. I want to downgrade to 32-bit win 7 and so I booted up a bootable win 7 usb and opened command-prompt with shift+f10. I used convert mbr ...
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windows no EFI partition
I installed windows 10 using USB in UEFI mode
USB (MBR)
installation target (GPT)
the USB installation media (created on Ubuntu) dual boots Ubuntu and Windows 10 using grub.
menuentry "Windows 10&...
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