There is a bootmgr.efi file in the root directory.

(It looks like this, and the entire Windows 8 feature group that contains the secure boot feature is set to disabled.)įrom superficially looking at the contents of the installation DVD, it looks like it is supposed to support UEFI boot:

So, the DVD does not show up in UEFI mode it just shows up once, in normal mode.Īs far as I can tell, secure boot is disabled in my MSI UEFI BIOS. Unfortunately, I see only the following entries ('.' means I skipped some detail information that only consisted of letters and numbers and probably does nothing to illustrate the issue): The UEFI boot menu should then show two entries for the DVD drive, one labeled 'UEFI' for the UEFI boot. Also, the article says I need to enter the UEFI boot menu upon booting while the Windows DVD is in the drive. (The Microsoft Win 7 ISO download site does not work for me because it refuses to accept the (OEM) product key found on my computer's certificate of authenticity, hence I cannot download from there - Microsoft recommends to ask the PC vendor for a disk instead, which is what I did.)Īccording to some resources such as this article (only in German), Windows 7 圆4 DVDs are already prepared for UEFI installation. For this purpose, I obtained a DVD from the vendor of my computer that contains all editions of Windows 7 圆4. I am trying to install a Windows 7 圆4 Home Premium in UEFI mode 1.

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