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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-
@broniebrown Irony: dual-boot should be easier with UEFI but I see Microsoft thinks otherwise.
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@broniebrown Amen to that... It keeps nagging me about "safe and secure bootstraps" and stuff
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@xrevan86 Somehow Windows 7 didn't even set up a UEFI partition.
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@broniebrown Ehmm, you mean the 100 megabyte first mini partition ?
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@critialcloudkicker Windows 7 made a little partition at the beginning of the HDD
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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 ?
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@critialcloudkicker I'm relatively new to this. So I don't know what's the partition for.
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@broniebrown What is the size of your biggest hard disk ?
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@critialcloudkicker My HDD is 1TB big. First partition: 100MB NTFS. Second Partition: 732GB. The rest EXT4+SWAP
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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
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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"
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@critialcloudkicker "hinky" ... "hinky" ... You know "hinky" kinda looks hinky to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXLDv-fUINM
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@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.
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@xrevan86 Well.. Then I did (almost) everything right
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