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I wanted to try out Windows 11 on my desktop, and one of the requirements was that UEFI secure boot is turned on. Took me the better part of a day to figure out
by TranquilMarmot 5y ago
I wanted to try out Windows 11 on my desktop, and one of the requirements was that UEFI secure boot is turned on. Took me the better part of a day to figure out how to turn it on, which required deleting some random partitions that had been created on my drive when I had upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10 because the tool to enable UEFI requires a _very specific_ number of partitions in the drive that it's being set up on. The error messages to figure out that was the problem were incredibly frustrating. The BIOS UI to turn it on was also so confusing; everything seems to be named differently in different places.
The kicker was that the Windows 11 install was borked and I had to wipe everything and reinstall. Ha.
- blibble 5y agosomething I found really handy for testing/retaining windows installs was a $30 external USB SSD (not a flash drive, a "external drive" that is flagged as "non-removable") you can install windows directly on it and tell the UEFI to boot off of it with absolutely no fuss
- depressedpanda 5y agoHow do I flag a drive as non removable? This is from years back, but my experience is that running Windows from an external drive isn't really easy. I hardly use the OS any longer, but I'd like to keep it around on an external drive if possible.
- blibble 5y agoI bought a disk that was already flagged! apparently some USB flash drives have a bit you can toggle with some vendor specific tool, but I've not tried that for a non-removable device installing Windows is exactly the same as for a normal hard drive (no fuss with Windows To Go or other rubbish)