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#26 fortyporty

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Posted 03 January 2016 - 09:02 PM

Guys, thank you all very much for your advice and help.

 

The problem seems to be solved and I think I know now where I went wrong.

 

If you look at my #18 post it shows the UEFI settings AFTER the second test install on my SSD drive.

 

But after I inserted the MiniTools DVD, booted and hit F8 (which offered a direct choice of boot source), I found an arrangement I'd never seen before. The listing said this: (top to bottom)

SATA6G_6: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24N
USB
SATA6G_5: ST3120813AS (114473MB)
UEFI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSD1

 

Because there were two listings for the DVD drive (1st and 4th) it occurred to me that because the 4th was shown as 'UEFI', the 1st might be MBR, and was probably the option I should use for my next install of W7.

 

(Rootman has just mentioned this in post #21. Thanks again for another good call, man)

 

So I unmounted the SSD and mounted the old 120GB HDD. This disk was carrying my first W7 test install, also in GPT.

 

Using MiniTools, I deleted the 3 GPT partitions and wiped the disk. Then chose 'Create Partition' and selected MBR.

 

Then rebooted with the W7 DVD disk and the installation went to an MBR partition. Problem solved.

 

In retrospect, I think if I'd been more familar with UEFI I might have spotted the 'two-DVD' choice on my first test install, but I must have selected the UEFI option without being aware of its significance. However, I think the guys who write UEFIs and BIOSs could do a lot better with their explanations and terminology, even though it's mostly techs who browse those configurations. I mean, everything else is being dumbed down, so why not computing? It took me a while to get a handle on BIOS, back in '95 when I first started building PCs, but UEFI is several more levels of GeekSpeek above BIOS, probably because of the greater choice of options that have been crammed into the configuration. Never mind the quality, feel the width.

 

LOL, not as sharp these days, 'forty' represents 1940 :-).

 

Again, my thanks to all who've responded.



#27 Wonko the Sane

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Posted 04 January 2016 - 11:31 AM

In retrospect, I think if I'd been more familar with UEFI I might have spotted the 'two-DVD' choice on my first test install, but I must have selected the UEFI option without being aware of its significance. However, I think the guys who write UEFIs and BIOSs could do a lot better with their explanations and terminology, even though it's mostly techs who browse those configurations. I mean, everything else is being dumbed down, so why not computing? It took me a while to get a handle on BIOS, back in '95 when I first started building PCs, but UEFI is several more levels of GeekSpeek above BIOS, probably because of the greater choice of options that have been crammed into the configuration. Never mind the quality, feel the width.

Those guys are plainly crazy. :w00t: :ph34r:

 

They went from "NO SPECS" (as BIOS is/was "proprietary" and largely UNdocumented all these years) to "too much".

 

In the good ol' days of BIOS every BIOS manufacturer "invented" *something* of their own and then called it differently.

 

Now the UEFI specifications are more than 2000 (two thousand) pages, there is everything (and the contrary of it) written in them, and it is not at all surprising that different people read them differently and name options differently.

 

So, rest assured :), it's not you or your age, it is an ordinary day of madness, everyday.

 

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#28 fortyporty

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Posted 05 January 2016 - 07:31 PM

LOL, like it :-)



#29 GertJ

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Posted 09 January 2016 - 08:08 AM

Reason you keep seeing and are given a choice of UEFI are your bios setting, that is also reason "secury-boot" are enabled and greyed-out.

"Boot Device Control - UEFI and Legacy OPROM"

Should only be Legacy, so - UEFI are not an option during boot.



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Posted 13 January 2016 - 02:25 AM

GertJ, thanks. You're correct that "UEFI and Legacy OPROM" should be "Legacy OPROM only". I changed that and there's now only one DVD device on offer at boot.

 

But I think you'll find that when Secure Boot is enabled but greyed-out, it's actually inoperative. I seem to recall that Paraglider also said this on the first page of this thread. If I recall correctly (without actually peering into the BIOS) that all that's necessary to disable Secure Boot is to set 'OS Type' to 'Other OS' The default mode is 'Windows UEFI'.



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Posted 14 January 2016 - 03:42 AM

Both Windows 7 and Windows Vista can boot in UEFI mode, but they are incompatible with Secure Boot. Secure Boot is a subset of UEFI and is part of the UEFI specification. Only Windows 8+ supports Secure Boot where the Windows line of OSes are concerned.



#32 fortyporty

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Posted 14 January 2016 - 04:47 AM

Thanks, good tip.






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