Impressed with Win 10 and UEFI Bios

[Griffith4ever]

Just upgraded my computer - new everything except the three SSDs, including the win 10 OS on one of them. New mobo, graphics card, the lot.

Can't believe how easy it's got. It's my office PC as well as gaming, so a lot of fine tunes apps and such are setup so don't have the time for a fresh install.

- Built new PC, installed all three existing SSDs, plus, two new NVME drives in the M2 slots.
- Booted up - nothing
- Enabled the CSM Legacy mode - new UEFI Bios layout had me scratching my head for a while to find it.
- Booted up ! Windows said "configuring" for about 30 seconds.
- Booted to desktop, nothing has changed! All drives mapped as they were before (which surprised me a little), everything happy. Was delighted.
- Next up ran the free Samsung utility to transfer my boot SSD to the Samsung NVME drive.
- 10 mins later, done, rebooted, expected to have to go into BIOS to enable EUFI so it could boot, and the usual playing with the boot menu to change the drive order - didn't have to do any of that - it just booted to the new drive - had a peek in the BIOS - seems windows can make changes to it! Never knew that!

All working perfectly - could not believe how painless it was. Just left with a few unknown PCI devices in device manager but everything is working and i've installed the MOBO drivers so not overly concerned.

Very impressed how things have moved on.

[xeny]

NVME drives could have been first in the boot order to start with, but automatically skipped over if there's no OS on them?

[somouk]

Windows has got a lot better at managing its partitions and understanding which has the MBR.

Does sound as though NVME have different boot option and it was first in the list but was previously skipped as no MBR.

[xeny]

somouk said:

Windows has got a lot better at managing its partitions and understanding which has the MBR. .

Sometimes. A few months ago I had a machine with an extant Linux install on one of two SSDs. I installed Windows 11 to the other drive and it cheerfully overwrote the boot loader for the Linux install as part of the install.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

xeny said:

somouk said:

Windows has got a lot better at managing its partitions and understanding which has the MBR. .

Sometimes. A few months ago I had a machine with an extant Linux install on one of two SSDs. I installed Windows 11 to the other drive and it cheerfully overwrote the boot loader for the Linux install as part of the install.

yeah also ive had it when updating the bios it wipes the linux bootloader out

[HairyMaclary]

This has always been the case? If you want to dual boot install windows first or you'll have this issue.

[somouk]

As I said, better at managing its partitions... it still doesn't understand other stuff. Not sure MSFT care, they likely believe if you are running multiple OS you will have the knowledge to manage the situation.