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  1. adiwan adiwan

    Damn UEFI. Installing a dual-boot system isn't as easy as it was with the normal BIOS.

    Thursday, 13-Nov-14 11:02:25 UTC from Choqok
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      xrevan86 xrevan86

      @broniebrown Irony: dual-boot should be easier with UEFI but I see Microsoft thinks otherwise.

      Thursday, 13-Nov-14 11:38:45 UTC from loadaverage.org
      1. adiwan adiwan

        @xrevan86 Somehow Windows 7 didn't even set up a UEFI partition.

        Thursday, 13-Nov-14 14:24:29 UTC from Choqok
        1. Cloud Kicker Cloud Kicker

          @broniebrown Ehmm, you mean the 100 megabyte first mini partition ?

          Thursday, 13-Nov-14 14:25:35 UTC from web
          1. adiwan adiwan

            @critialcloudkicker Windows 7 made a little partition at the beginning of the HDD

            Thursday, 13-Nov-14 14:27:47 UTC from Choqok
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              @broniebrown Isn't that the UEFI partition ? Or are you talking about the GPT thing for drives over X in size ?

              Thursday, 13-Nov-14 14:29:22 UTC from web
              1. adiwan adiwan

                @critialcloudkicker I'm relatively new to this. So I don't know what's the partition for.

                Thursday, 13-Nov-14 14:32:01 UTC from Choqok
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                  @broniebrown What is the size of your biggest hard disk ?

                  Thursday, 13-Nov-14 14:33:26 UTC from web
                  1. adiwan adiwan

                    @critialcloudkicker My HDD is 1TB big. First partition: 100MB NTFS. Second Partition: 732GB. The rest EXT4+SWAP

                    Thursday, 13-Nov-14 14:36:18 UTC from Choqok
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                      @broniebrown Basically, there needs to be an MBR on the disk ( this is before partitions come into play ) which allocates maximum adressable storage space. the original technology is called MBR and supports up to 2 TB ( 232 X 512 bytes ). Then GUID partition tables ( GPT ) came along later and has some improvements over the old MBR, such as the ability to support up to 18 Exabytes in size and 128 partitions per disk ( compared to the old MBR format, that only could support 4 primary partitions ( or 3 primary, 1 extended, and unlimited logical ) ... Also there is a greater reliability because of... replication and redundancy check protection of the partition table... ... Which basically translates to "use it when needed, such as when you have a 2TB+ drive or need +4 logical partitions" in my head

                      Thursday, 13-Nov-14 14:45:29 UTC from web
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                        @critialcloudkicker ... Looked kinda hinky to me, so I did look it up, the "MBR" sector is more commonly known as "MBR", "Master Boot Sector", "Sector Zero", or "Cylinder 0 Head 0 Sector 1"

                        Thursday, 13-Nov-14 14:50:46 UTC from web
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                          @critialcloudkicker "hinky" ... "hinky" ... You know "hinky" kinda looks hinky to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXLDv-fUINM

                          Thursday, 13-Nov-14 15:05:06 UTC from web
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          xrevan86 xrevan86

          @broniebrown Windows 7 doesn't work well on UEFI, you need knowledge and magick to install it. I was thinking about Windows 8+ while writing previous message.

          Thursday, 13-Nov-14 15:40:42 UTC from loadaverage.org
          1. adiwan adiwan

            @xrevan86 Well.. Then I did (almost) everything right

            Thursday, 13-Nov-14 15:41:50 UTC from Choqok
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      @broniebrown Amen to that... It keeps nagging me about "safe and secure bootstraps" and stuff

      Thursday, 13-Nov-14 12:17:05 UTC from web