How to prepare an internal IDE/SATA drive for installing of Windows 7,8 on UEFI and BIOS computers?
I have the instruction to setup Windows from USB external stick or drive:
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Your USB drive must be bootable, and be formatted with a FAT32 File system. The UEFI is unable to identify a USB drive formatted with NTFS as a UEFI boot device.
Make a bootable USB device for UEFI and GPT:
Open the Start Menu, type diskpart, press Enter
Type lis dis, press Enter
Type sel dis X (where X is the number your USB drive shows up as), press Enter
Type cle, press Enter
Type cre par pri, press Enter
Type act, press Enter
Type for quick fs=fat32, press Enter
Type ass, press Enter
Type exi, press Enter
Copy everything from the Windows 7 installation DVD onto the USB key (a simple drag and drop will do; if you have an .iso extract first).
Your USB drive must also contain the directory and file: \EFI\Boot\BOOTX64.EFI. This is the EFI installation bootloader extension.
If you do not have this directory, or file on your USB drive, fear not. This is how you create it.
First, create a new directory called Boot inside the \EFI directory
You will then need to copy all of the files from the \EFI\microsoft\boot directory, up one level into the directory you just created (\EFI\Boot).
Next, use 7-Zip to open the archive located at: *:\sources\boot.wim (* is the drive letter of your USB key that holds the Windows 7 installation files)
Inside the archive, find the file located in folder "1" \Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw
Copy this file to *:\EFI\Boot\ location you created earlier. (Not in 7-zip) (This file is also available from any current windows 7 installation). It is located in the C:\Windows\Boot\EFI directory.
After copying the file to the EFI\Boot directory, rename the file in *:\EFI\Boot\bootmgfw.efi toBOOTX64.EFI. You should now have an EFI bootloader directory for Windows called *:\EFI\Boot\, with all of the files copied from the EFI\microsoft\Boot. Directory, and the newly named BOOTX64.EFI
Your install media (DVD/USB) must be inserted into your PC prior to powering it up. This will allow your UEFI to register your device (DVD drive/USB drive) as a UEFI boot enabled device.
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Could that instruction be applied to an internal IDE/SATA drive to install from it ?
If not, what should be changed/added in the guide above?
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Your USB drive must be bootable, and be formatted with a FAT32 File system. The UEFI is unable to identify a USB drive formatted with NTFS as a UEFI boot device.
Make a bootable USB device for UEFI and GPT:
Open the Start Menu, type diskpart, press Enter
Type lis dis, press Enter
Type sel dis X (where X is the number your USB drive shows up as), press Enter
Type cle, press Enter
Type cre par pri, press Enter
Type act, press Enter
Type for quick fs=fat32, press Enter
Type ass, press Enter
Type exi, press Enter
Copy everything from the Windows 7 installation DVD onto the USB key (a simple drag and drop will do; if you have an .iso extract first).
Your USB drive must also contain the directory and file: \EFI\Boot\BOOTX64.EFI. This is the EFI installation bootloader extension.
If you do not have this directory, or file on your USB drive, fear not. This is how you create it.
First, create a new directory called Boot inside the \EFI directory
You will then need to copy all of the files from the \EFI\microsoft\boot directory, up one level into the directory you just created (\EFI\Boot).
Next, use 7-Zip to open the archive located at: *:\sources\boot.wim (* is the drive letter of your USB key that holds the Windows 7 installation files)
Inside the archive, find the file located in folder "1" \Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgfw
Copy this file to *:\EFI\Boot\ location you created earlier. (Not in 7-zip) (This file is also available from any current windows 7 installation). It is located in the C:\Windows\Boot\EFI directory.
After copying the file to the EFI\Boot directory, rename the file in *:\EFI\Boot\bootmgfw.efi toBOOTX64.EFI. You should now have an EFI bootloader directory for Windows called *:\EFI\Boot\, with all of the files copied from the EFI\microsoft\Boot. Directory, and the newly named BOOTX64.EFI
Your install media (DVD/USB) must be inserted into your PC prior to powering it up. This will allow your UEFI to register your device (DVD drive/USB drive) as a UEFI boot enabled device.
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Could that instruction be applied to an internal IDE/SATA drive to install from it ?
If not, what should be changed/added in the guide above?
ASKER
I need to boot from internal HDD into Windows PE to initiate the setup to install Windows on another HDD or partition, or just call up the utilities I need. In other words, to be able to boot from ISO (original or modified), that should be copied to internal HDD and prepared properly to boot from this media instead of USB stick/external drive. And that it was bootable as well on UEFI-PC's.
why not just boot from DVD??? that seems the easiest to me.
here a guide, on how to do that : http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/a/open-advanced-startup-options-windows-8.htm
here a guide, on how to do that : http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/a/open-advanced-startup-options-windows-8.htm
ASKER
No sir!
DVD's, USB sticks/drives are not fitting for me, as I don't have any of them and not going to buy ones!
I have many of HDD inside PC case and wish to use them, instead of crappy DVD's that was thrown away a couple of years ago. Besides I have many PC'S with BIOS that's not supporting to boot from USB devices. I am not going to install the OS in VM's as well. So I need only the stuff I am asking for!!!
DVD's, USB sticks/drives are not fitting for me, as I don't have any of them and not going to buy ones!
I have many of HDD inside PC case and wish to use them, instead of crappy DVD's that was thrown away a couple of years ago. Besides I have many PC'S with BIOS that's not supporting to boot from USB devices. I am not going to install the OS in VM's as well. So I need only the stuff I am asking for!!!
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what you want to do is turn a internal SATA drive into a bootable install media for windows 7? Are you turning this drive into a external drive via a usb harness or are you wanting to duel boot this drive with another internal drive to install from?