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    Enabling UEFI and Secure Boot

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by borse2008, Apr 3, 2016.

  1. borse2008

    borse2008 Notebook Consultant

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    I reinstalled windows 10 but had to enable legacy bios settings to boot from usb, now when i turn everything back to where it was on secure boot and uefi on it dosent boot properly.
     
    borse2008, Apr 3, 2016
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    returntosennder Newbie

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    You seem to have installed Windows without UEFI. You'll have to reinstall Windows. Make a fresh windows USB drive using Rufus. Make sure that you select GUID (GPT) as the partition scheme. Otherwise, you'll end up with Windows in legacy mode again. After that, disabled legacy bios and boot into the USB via UEFI.
     
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    Eason Notebook Virtuoso

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    Read my thread here from a couple weeks ago about swapping ssds. I found a solution with Macrium. It will take a few hours.
     
    Eason, Apr 3, 2016
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    Woodking Notebook Evangelist

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    No disrespect intended to anyone of course, but I'd rather recommend doing aclean install using @GoNz0 's very useful guide instead of using this method. While it may work - and fair play for suggesting it :) it is still a workaround instead of a proper clean install from scratch.

    He's even gone to the trouble of making an ISO with drivers included.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...ean-install-guide-custom-iso-download.789769/
     
    Woodking, Apr 3, 2016
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