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> Every computer I've used supports NTFS in its UEFI. I even thought it was standard. I've never seen a motherboard supporting anything else than FAT for an UE
by fathyb 4y ago
> Every computer I've used supports NTFS in its UEFI. I even thought it was standard.
I've never seen a motherboard supporting anything else than FAT for an UEFI partition. What is likely happening is that you're booting using a small EFI System Partition (ESP) formatted in FAT32 which contains a bootloader with an NTFS driver.
It can get confusing because the EFI bootloader generally registers new boot entries for each non-ESP partition, but these are booting the ESP with the selected partition GUID.
- Akeo 4y ago> I've never seen a motherboard supporting anything else than FAT for an UEFI partition. Then you haven't used any Gigabyte, Asus or Intel motherboard for the last 5-7 years, because all the ones I tried include a native NTFS UEFI driver alongside the mandatory FAT32 UEFI driver. But, as others have pointed out, while it is definitely getting commoditized, you can't rely on NTFS being available in a UEFI firmware.
- vbezhenar 4y agoI'm pretty sure it didn't happen because I partitioned disk myself using diskpart and I did not create any small partition with bootloader or whatever. Just one 10GB NTFS partition and copy files from mounted ISO to this partition using ordinary explorer Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. I've used that with few Asus motherboards (I prefer this brand) and one dell laptop. They were 2015+, so relatively modern, I guess.
- vetinari 4y ago> I've never seen a motherboard supporting anything else than FAT for an UEFI partition. I've seen exactly one model line, that does support NTFS in UEFI: Intel NUCs. It was quite nice, but nobody preparing boot media can rely on the availability, as the only mandatory filesystem is FAT32.