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Can I install a UEFI hard drive as the main (boot) drive in a legacy(BIOS) Windows 7 system?



 
 
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Old March 16th 16, 06:24 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Rod Speed
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Default Can I install a UEFI hard drive as the main (boot) drive in a legacy (BIOS) Windows 7 system?

Sam wrote
Rod Speed wrote


I wasn't suggesting the last, boot into Win on different drive.


I appreciate the clarification.


One FINAL question: Since I need to use another drive to boot into
Windows.
Can I use an SSD drive (for improved performance)


Yes you can.

or should I stick with a 1 GB regular drive?


No reason to, but that will work fine too.

The mobo has SATA 6 connectors and currently my Windows drives uses it.
I should replace it before it fails on me as it is old too.


Motherboards don't fail very often at all, I have only ever
had the one fail. Certainly a new one would be easier with
UEFI support.

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Old April 15th 16, 10:22 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Sam
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Default Can I install a UEFI hard drive as the main (boot) drive in alegacy (BIOS) Windows 7 system?

On Monday, March 14, 2016 at 2:58:54 PM UTC-7, Rod Speed wrote:
Sam wrote
Rod Speed wrote


There is another workaround that some manufacturers
provide that allows it to boot Win7 from the UEFI drive.


Asus had no response to my enquiry. My mobo is ASUS P6X58D-E.
It doesn't support the new type of bios.


Yeah, it's a pretty elderly motherboard.

Any insight or guidance would be appreciated.


Looks like you are out of luck.


Hey folks, I received a reply from Asus on a workaround to get a UEFI drive to boot via a non UEFI mobo. These are the instructions, however, I have not yet tried it out to see if it would work or not:

1) Get Rufus: https://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/rufus-2.7.exe

2) Download Windows 7 UEFI iso

3) Use Rufus software

4) Boot to USB to install to Drive
 




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