bookie32 Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Hi guys! I have tried to see by convential methord like msinfo32....nothing about legacy or UEFI there... I have tried looking ofor the setupact.log to see if I am actually using UEFI...no log file.....ccleaner can be the culprit....lol What other ways can I use to see if I am actually using UEFI mode? bookie32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, bookie32 said: Hi guys! I have tried to see by convential methord like msinfo32....nothing about legacy or UEFI there... I have tried looking ofor the setupact.log to see if I am actually using UEFI...no log file.....ccleaner can be the culprit....lol What other ways can I use to see if I am actually using UEFI mode? bookie32 Find bootmgr in root of your boot (or system or both) volume. Delete it. Reboot. If it doesn't boot, it is BIOS, if it boots again it is UEFI. Now, seriously. Have a look at your system volume (or boot volume or both), that may be either your C:\ volume or in case of GPT the "hidden" one. Unless it is a FrankenInstall, you will have EITHER : \bootmgr \boot\BCD OR: \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi or \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgr.efi \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD And/or run BCDEDIT as follows: bcdedit.exe /enum ALL See (for more information): http://www.mistyprojects.co.uk/documents/BCDEdit/index.html jaclaz Edited February 13, 2019 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookie32 Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 Thank you so much! bookie32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCyborg Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 There's also this blog post, look under Differences between UEFI vs. Legacy BIOS boot install. 2 hours ago, bookie32 said: I have tried to see by convential methord like msinfo32....nothing about legacy or UEFI there... Must have been added starting with Windows 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookie32 Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 Yes....I think you are right... bookie32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radish Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 (edited) You can also try this: How to Check if Your Computer Uses UEFI or BIOS I tried this on Windows 7 SP1 x64 and looking in System Information there wasn't a "BIOS" entry. However, I did find the setupact.log file in the folder C:\Windows\Panther and there using the search phrase Detected boot environment was the information (in my case "BIOS"). The guide I point to says this second method is for Windows 10, but works for Win7 on my system. Edited February 13, 2019 by Radish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookie32 Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 Yes....but I haven't the setupact.log...think it might have been removed by ccleaner....;) Thanks anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videobruce Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 jaclaz; That link in your post is dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burd Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 im sure you can open cmd in admin and type diskpart , then list disk , GPT = UEFI , MBR = legacy , if gpt doesnt show a star it means its in legacy basically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 On 3/28/2019 at 9:43 PM, videobruce said: jaclaz; That link in your post is dead. I'll try contacting Misty, maybe he simply forgot to renew the domain. Anyway, in the meantime you can use and peruse the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20180901090036/http://www.mistyprojects.co.uk/documents/BCDEdit/index.html @burd JFYI: MBR=BIOS and: GPT=UEFI are not perfect equivalences. jaclaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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