Win 7 - UEFI vs Legacy.

Mel_P · 5 Nov 2015 at 22:48

Having read around this - and considering the hassle to create a win7 EEFI book USB dongle from my Winn 7 DVD, I think that I am going to install win 7 in legacy mode onto my 240GB SSD (which doesn't need GPT format).

Can anybody persuade me otherwise!

Mel

AthlonXP1800 · 6 Nov 2015 at 19:43

You should install Win 7 in UEFI mode, you will notice faster boot, sleep and wake from sleep than in legacy mode.

On my Linx 10 tablet with 32GB eMMC used GPT by default with Windows 8.1 preinstalled a year ago when I bought tablet.

Blackjack Davy · 7 Nov 2015 at 18:50

Mel_P said:
Can anybody persuade me otherwise!

Mel

Depends on your hard drive? With an SSD W7 boots in < 5 seconds on Legacy with mine, couldn't be bothered with all the UEFI stuff, depends if a few extra seconds boot time gain is worth the hassle to you?

Mel_P · 7 Nov 2015 at 19:31

Well I prepared a UEFI bootable USB drive from my Win 7 DVD using "Rufus" - quite easy.

I "think" that I set up the UEFI Bios and installed Win 7

It has a 100MB "efi" partition - does that mean its done the job?

Thanks, Mel

nox_uk · 8 Nov 2015 at 22:50

Rufus is awesome

Sounds like it. But I seem to remember Windows 7 not supporting uefi boot properly when I was boot camping a Mac Pro a while back onto a raided volume.