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The original poster is considering upgrading their Sony Vaio from Windows 7 Home Basic to Windows 8, but the upgrade assistant indicates that Secure Boot isn't compatible. A responder confirms that Secure Boot is a UEFI feature and that Windows 8 can run without it, implying the upgrade can proceed without issues related to Secure Boot. Overall, the thread suggests there are no major obstacles to installing Windows 8 despite the Secure Boot warning.
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I am using a Sony Vaio 64 bit laptop running on Windows 7 Home Basic.

I plan to upgrade it to Windows 8. I ran the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant. It says that though my laptop supports Windows 8, Secure Boot is not compatible with my PC.

Can I go ahead and install Windows 8? What will happen without Secure Boot?
 

kemical

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Hi,

yes you can. Secure boot is a feature enabled with a Uefi bios. If you don't have a Uefi bios then it isn't used. It basically stops rogue software starting up with windows and windows 8 runs fine without it.
 

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