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  2. GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia

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    Convert Windows Vista SP1+ or 7 x86_64 boot from BIOS-MBR mode to UEFI-GPT mode without Reinstall Support for GPT (Partition scheme) and HDD greater than 2.19 TB in Microsoft Windows XP Setting up a RAID volume in Linux with >2TB disks

  3. UEFI - Wikipedia

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    UEFI machines can have one of the following classes, which were used to help ease the transition to UEFI: [96] Class 0: Legacy BIOS; Class 1: UEFI with a CSM interface and no external UEFI interface. The only UEFI interfaces are internal to the firmware. Class 2: UEFI with CSM and external UEFI interfaces, eg. UEFI Boot.

  4. EFI system partition - Wikipedia

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    On legacy BIOS-based systems, the first sector of a partition is loaded into memory, and execution is transferred to this code. UEFI firmware does not execute the code in the MBR, except when booting in legacy BIOS mode through the Compatibility Support Module (CSM). [1] The UEFI specification requires MBR partition tables to be fully supported ...

  5. Booting process of Linux - Wikipedia

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    rEFInd, a boot manager for UEFI systems. coreboot is a free implementation of the UEFI or BIOS and usually deployed with the system board, and field upgrades provided by the vendor if need be. Parts of coreboot becomes the systems BIOS and stays resident in memory after boot. Das U-Boot is a bootloader for embedded systems. It is used on ...

  6. How to install Windows 10 from USB with UEFI support - AOL

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    In this guide, we'll show you the steps of creating a USB flash media to perform an in-place upgrade or clean installation of Windows 10 on computers using UEFI firmware with the Media Creation ...

  7. BIOS - Wikipedia

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    The BIOS uses the boot devices set in Nonvolatile BIOS memory , or, in the earliest PCs, DIP switches. The BIOS checks each device in order to see if it is bootable by attempting to load the first sector (boot sector). If the sector cannot be read, the BIOS proceeds to the next device.

  8. Microsoft basic data partition - Wikipedia

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    To programmatically determine which file system a BDP contains, Microsoft specifies that one should inspect the BIOS Parameter Block that is contained in the BDP's Volume Boot Record. When a Microsoft operating system converts a GPT-partitioned basic disk to a dynamic disk , all BDPs are combined and converted to a single Logical Disk Manager ...

  9. Option ROM - Wikipedia

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    The Video BIOS provides some basic display services for BIOS and operating systems, for example INT 10H (Legacy BIOS), VBE (Legacy BIOS) and UEFI GOP. The original IBM PC BIOS included integrated support for the IBM CGA and MDA video adapters (and did not support option ROMs at all), so those video cards had no option ROMs.