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Windows 7 installation on UEFI computer, URGENT help needed.
Hi
I have a laptop with windows 8.1 pro x64 but i never was comfortable with windows 8.1 or 8. I am more comfortable with windows 7 but the problem is that this is a UEFI laptop with secure boot enabled and obviously partitions must be GPT (not sure).
I deleted all the partitions by taking out the drive from machine, attaching it with my desktop system (windows XP) and used EaseUS partition manager to delete all the partition table and made simple partition style of 1 primary and 3 extended logical drives. (It also deleted the recovery and system reserved partitions).
My C drive is 50GB now.
For installing windows 7, i did some settings in BIOS:
Secure boot - disabled
boot type - legacy boot type (other options are UEFI boot type and dual boot type)
Intel rapid start - disabled
Intel rapid storage - disabled
Intel anti-theft - disabled
AHCI type - SATA (other option is RAID)
However my question is something else. If i want to install windows 7 in UEFI mode, i know i have to use RUFUS to make it UEFI bootable and install it. BUT i want to know something:
1. For installing Windows 7 in UEFI, DO THE PARTITIONS need to be in GPT mode?
Because as far i THINK now that i made partitions again so it must be in BIOS mode and not the GPT mode. Am i right?
2. Installing OS still, WITHOUT UEFI (disabled UEFI boot from BIOS) and partitions in BIOS mode, will the OS windows 7 function normal or not?