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Hello friends, I need your help in UEFI mode bios. I had trouble installing a windows 7 x64 on lenovo z7500 laptop, it was UEFI firmware. I can't install windows by that mode. should i create bootable media for UEFI bios and how? Can u help me how use that new system of UEFI correctly? I...

Hi, Just switched out from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit Full Edition and I have to say I am a little confused about Windows 8.1 Recovery. So upon a clean install, three visible partitions are created, Recovery (300mb), EFI (100mb), and the regular Windows partition. (I understand there...

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So I try to install Windows 7 onto my SSD for a completely new comp - and in the 'where do you want to install windows' window I have 2 partitions. Disk 0 Partition 1 - 100MB total size, 86MB free space, System - type - 'Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT...

Encountered this problem when trying to install windows: I couldnt install windows in C ,neither to format that partition because of this message [Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks]...

Trying to restore a Windows 7 image after a boot manager problem Rampage IV Formula MB with no hardware or BIOS changes since the creation of the image 9 days ago, but get the following error message. "The system image restore failed. Windows cannot restore a system image to a computer that has...

hi, first i'd just like to say i dont know much about this part of computers so if you can help please exaplain clearly. so, my laptop is getting fuller,slower and i would like to return it to how it was when i bought it. so i thought i'd reinstall windows. i put in the disk and boot up my...

Fixes an issue in which the F11 and F12 keys do not work when you try to install a 64-bit version of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on an EFI-based computer. More...

Taiwan-based Insyde Software has announced that it is working on BIOS solutions supporting the UEFI (unified extensible firmware interface) standard for Microsoft's next version of Windows. Insyde added it has developed a technology dubbed "Blink Boot" to accelerate PC boot times significantly...

l am having a problem with installing due to a disk partition problem.. Im getting an error that says "The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems Windows can only be installed to GPT disks" I have no clue and reading other forums it sounded like specific computers were...

Hi, I'm trying to do a clean install on Windows 7 64-bit on my laptop. I currently have 32-bit Vista running. I initially created a new partition, copies all my data there, then started to do the custom install. I got the message: Some Googling around found the following suggestion...

I have a new Sony Vaio laptop running Vista x64. It's a Sony motherboard with an EFI setup using InsydeH2O software (in place of BIOS, as I understand it). My HDD is currently in 3 partitions (a Sony hidden restore partition, my C: drive and a D: data partition). When I try to install W7 RC...

Microsoft we are in 2009 , why are the main windows installation files distribution method is still DVD's? why not flash memory? Here is why i think why we need to shift to flash memory: Flash memory is faster and more reliable than DVD's (Bonus: no noise & less power to use) 4 GB USB drive...