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9. Enable Secure Boot At this point you can only enter UEFI BIOS by restarting Windows directly to UEFI Firmware: Settings, Advanced Startup, Update and recovery, Recovery, Restart Now. When WinRE starts, select Troubleshooting, Boot to UEFI Firmware. Once in UEFI BIOS, select...

8. Finalize WinRE partition Boot Windows and open command prompt (cmd.exe) in administrator mode: press Win key to open Start scren, type CMD, then right click Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator. In the first command prompt windows, run DiskPart to assign a drive letter to...

7. Make system partition bootable Run BCDBoot tool to rebuild a new BCD store, copy EFI Boot Manager and OS loader files to drive S: and configure Windows Boot Manager settings in the UEFI BIOS. If you are repairing the ESP partition, you might want to make a backup copy of the existing BCD...

6. Verify the partitions Your four partitions on the boot disk should look exactly like this now: DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Recovery 300 MB 1024 KB Partition 2...

5. Create the three system partitions First you have to identify your bootable disk drive, which should now have at least 529 MBytes (or 689 Mbytes for 4Kn disks) of unallocated space at the start followed by your primary Windows partition, and select it:X:\ DiskPart DISKPART> list disk...

4. Boot to Windows Recovery media Restart again and boot the USB Recovery Media prepared in step 1. Select Diagnose, Advanced, Command Prompt If you are recovering your existing system boot partition, you will be asked for your password, and your command prompt will read C:\ If you have...

3. Resize the primary Windows partition Boot from Partition Wizard media and run the Partition Wizard. Delete the 100 MB system partition (be careful not to delete your primary Windows partition here!). If you still have a 350 Mbyte Vista/7 recovery partition at the end of the disk...

2. Prepare Partition Wizard Bootable CD You need to convert your system disk to GPT and resize the Windows partition to make room for system partitions. You cannot convert the system disk while the system is running, so you need an offline disk partitioning tool. Unfortunately built-in...

1. Prepare a bootable USB Recovery Media (WinRE) Control Panel, File History, Recovery Attach a USB stick with capacity of 512 MBytes or more. All contents on the USB media will be erased without warning. If you cannot boot to your Windows installation, you need a second working Windows...

How to convert bootable MBR system disk to a UEFI bootable disk without losing your data in Windows 8/8.1 OR Repair UEFI system boot partition (only perform steps 1, 5.ii, 6-7). You need to have a working Windows installation on a bootable MBR disk which has two partitions - a 100 MB system...

Tutorial: In-place upgrade MBR boot disk to EFI boot disk I've just finished an in-place upgrade of Windows 7 to 8.1u1 (with a intermediate step of upgrading W7 to W8). The system was installed was on a SSD with MBR partitions and I wanted to convert to GPT disk and initialize secure EFI...