"...winston?" wrote in message
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W wrote:
Does Windows 7 support the need UEFI replacement for BIOS? If yes,
does
this require 64-bit Windows 7? Does it require the system partition
and
boot partition to both be on a GPT disk?

I have a Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit boot partition working on an old Dell
computer. That computer's BIOS says nothing about UEFI. When I try to
copy over the image of the system partition and boot partition to a a
Dell
T7600 system - which DOES offer UEFI boot devices as an option - and try
to
boot in legacy mode, I get a message that I am trying to boot a UEFI
device
in legacy mode. Unfortunately, that device does NOT show up in the
list of
boot devices. When I select the device 0 on the boot controller, I get
a
message that the partition cannot be booted (without any details).

If I go into the Dell T7600 setup and configure it to use UEFI, that is
more
confusion. If I try to add a UEFI device, it tells me "No file
system".
If I simply enable UEFI without adding a boot device, it finds nothing
on
startup.

So at the end of the day, I have an exact image copy of a bootable
WIndows 7
64-bit OS, and I cannot get it to boot in either legacy mode or in UEFI
mode. Since I have no experience with UEFI, I am just lost here.

P.S., I was copying over the Windows disk image just to bootstrap
install
process, and I was going to relicense the OS once it booted.

You should be able to find a fair amount of specifics on Win7 and UEFI
in the following articles

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...01(WS.10).aspx


https://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/...-computer.aspx


http://www.sevenforums.com/installat...therboard.html

Afaik....you need to boot the Win7 DVD in UEFI mode to install Win7 in
UEFI mode in order for it to run. As long as your system supports UEFI
the installation will handle the required partitioning as noted in the
first article (technet.../library/..)above.

I guess if we are going to bother with UEFI at all we should probably just
use Windows 8 64-bit, since that has much better support for UEFI,
particularly at run-time?

Back to my original question, what is the correct procedure for copying over
a Windows 7 mirror disk image to a new machine? You copy the 100 MB system
partition and then the boot partition, on an MBR disk, and then mark the
system partition as Active?

The above is what I am doing and the new system refuses to see this as a
bootable disk. It's not that it starts booting and fails to load some
essential driver. It's that it never starts to boot at all, and refuses to
see the disk as a bootable disk.

I can't get that partition seen by the one-time boot menu as a UEFI boot
disk. But when I boot in legacy mode the system complains that this is a
UEFI disk.

The UEFI features in my Dell T7600 UEFI / BIOS are horrific. It looks like
some kind of engineering experiment, far far far from being mature or usable
software. I don't understand at this point how to get the new system to
see the old install.

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W