It's a very different environment, very easy to tell one from another. As for how it determines which mode it is in, I can't say specifically.It's very easy to determine which mode the OS booted from, everything from boot loader right down to the entry points are different, residing in different files. It has this behaviour when booting via DVD, HDD or LAN. or even if there is no HDD connected to the system. ![]() It doesn't matter whether the disk is GPT. If it is being booted in BIOS/Legacy mode, it does not look at this location. In Windows 8, whatever it is exactly that creates the drawing animation will look for a specific second of the ACPI tables IF the OS is being booted in UEFI mode. ![]() I'm not sure how that thread relates to this one. I wonder how that worked.? Because as you can verify for yourself by searching, my thread here is the first one discussing any success of Windows 7 on GPT. I considered those cases to be a bug and did not record the particulars of which boards or BIOS versions I was using. ![]() I added the "or any" comment in there because during my initial testing of Windows 7 on GPT disk, I was able to boot in either legacy or UEFI boot.
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