How to determine whether the windows startup method is uefi or legacy bios

  

How to determine whether the windows startup type is uefi or legacy bios? During the installation process, it is often necessary to judge the windows startup mode on the computer? Is it uefi or legacy bios? Brother teaches everyone how to determine whether the windows startup method is uefi or legacy bios.

Applicable to Win10, Win8.1, Win8, Win7, Vista.

The most installed X method:

When installing the operating system, the installer will collect some necessary information, and the startup mode of the computer is one of them. Find the setupact.log file in your computer's C:WindowsPanther folder, open it with Notepad, and search for Detected Boot Environment, where you can see how the system boots.

When a friend sees you finding this line of text from this tens of megabytes of log files, that's really too X.

The smartest method:

If you know the relationship between GPT and UEFI boot, then you may know that Windows wants to boot from GPT hard disk, it must be started in UEFI mode (or vice versa) invalid). Look at the hard disk type in the disk management, if it is GPT, then the computer must be UEFI boot. Open disk management, right click on the main hard disk, if it appears "converted to GPT disk", then the hard disk is MBR type; if it appears "converted to MBR disk", the hard disk is GPT type (because it is the main Hard disk, this item is gray unavailable state).

Experts use this method:

Press Win+R to open the run, enter msinfo32, and press Enter to view the system information. In the BIOS mode, if "Traditional" is displayed, it means that the system startup mode is Legacy BIOS; if it is UEFI, UEFI is displayed.

Well, there is another method:

The system startup program files of the two startup modes are different. The startup file in the traditional mode is the exe program, and the startup file in the UEFI mode. Is the efi program. If you have Rubik's Cube installed (click here to download), open “software setup master”——“system settings”——“multiple system settings" in the boot menu you will see Go to the full path to the startup file and see the end of the file.

Legacy BIOS Boot Method

UEFI Boot Method

Then, is it useful to summarize so many methods? No way, the technical emperor is so capricious!
< In fact, in addition to learning to see the type of startup, I hope that everyone can learn something from the article before they know it. Of course, there may be more ways to resist the netizens: however, there is no X to use.

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