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    W520 won't boot UEFI

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by chenxiaolong, Jul 21, 2011.

  1. chenxiaolong

    chenxiaolong Notebook Geek

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    I just converted by hard drive from MBR to GPT partition table and somehow, the W520 won't boot from any UEFI device (as in, with a .efi file) anymore. Is this a known issue? I'm running the preloaded 1.25 BIOS.
     
    chenxiaolong, Jul 21, 2011
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  2. kirayamato26

    kirayamato26 Notebook Deity

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    Did you set it to give the UEFI priority when booting?
     
    kirayamato26, Jul 22, 2011
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