UEFI is a new type of system reloading technology that has a faster startup speed than a BIOS computer and can quickly initialize the computer hardware to load the environment from the pre-installed boot environment. Now the user computer is required to use UEFI. Not a traditional BIOS, so many users are asking how to install windows10 in UEFI mode, then see Xiaobian for a detailed introduction.
What is UEFI?
The new UEFI, the full name "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface" (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), is a standard that describes the type interface in detail. This interface is used by the operating system to automatically load from a pre-booted operating environment to an operating system.
The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is Intel's recommended standard for the architecture, interfaces, and services of PC firmware. Its main purpose is to provide a set of properly specified boot services on all platforms before the OS is loaded (before startup), and is considered to be the successor to the BIOS with nearly 20 years of history.
How to install Windows 10 in UEFI mode
1. Obtain the appropriate installation media (system CD or USB flash drive). The official Windows 10 system CD already supports UEFI installation.
2, start your computer with your installation media. You may need to modify some advanced startup options for your computer. However, most computer motherboards now have a special button to modify the boot sequence. The more common ones are F8, F9, F11 or F12. You can refer to your computer (main board) manual or pay attention to the startup screen prompts for the start sequence button (usually at the bottom of the screen or at the bottom left). You can also try searching for your computer (board) model to see the buttons for the boot sequence switch.
3, when the Windows installer starts, you need to reformat your hard disk with the GPT partition table, because the Windows installer only recognizes the GPT partition in UEFI mode. If you have already done this, you can install Windows on the appropriate partition already listed, then go to step 4. If this is not the case, delete all previous partitions until only the label "Unallocated space" appears in your hard drive partition option.
4, you can click Next, and the system will format and install it. Of course, you can also manually partition, then select a partition suitable for installation as the primary partition, click Next to install.
5. During the installation process, the system will automatically partition according to the following rules:
1 Recovery partition.
2 system reserved partition —— This EFI partition contains the core files of the operating system, just like the previous system version of NTLDR, HAL, boot.txt and other files, which are necessary to start the operating system.
3MSR—— Microsoft System Recovery (MSR) partition is the storage space used internally by Windows in each hard disk partition.
4 primary partition —— This is a common partition for Windows and all user data storage, ie system partition.
6. The following can continue the installation work in the usual way.
By properly installing Windows 10 in UEFI mode, it will better show the features of UEFI computer startup, so you can get a shorter boot time.