On 13/04/2014 10:02 AM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>> fdisk
>>>
>> That's looking like a very attractive option. ATM.
>>
>> I've spent most of the day trying to make this Win8 machine, and I use
>> that word loosely, dual boot. I've created partitions, I've deleted
>> partitions, I've made bootable thumb drives. I've been unable to boot at
>> all. I've changed settings in the BIOS as if I were testing a truth
>> table.
>
> BIOS?
>
> Don't you mean UEFI? ;-)
>
Maybe I do. Maybe I don't ;-)

> And that might well be your problem. UEFI doesn't use the boot block *at
> all* during the boot process; it uses its own completely new system of
> booting...
>
>

So I found out.

Does message ring a bell?

Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the 
GPT partition style.


>
> ....unless you turn on BIOS compatibility mode, in which case it works
> just like before.
>
>
I turned the setting to legacy. Then it could not find a bootable disc. 
And I could not install Win7 to make it bootable.
>
> Oh, and did I mention? You may have Secure Boot turned on. If so, only
> digitally signed operating systems (e.g., Windows 8) can be used.
>

I switched that off too.

>
> Did I mention this has been the bane of my life for the past month?

I don't think so. But I've not been keeping up with the newsgroups, 
recently.
The whole thing is very annoying.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

I solemnly promise to kick the next angle, I see.

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