dyson Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 So I bought the y480 and put in a SSD by crucialAfterwards it became obvious that i dont understand UEFI/EFI I dont have recovery disks and all the attempts to restore from LENOVO website are always imperfect.Can someone nutshell the UEFI stuff for me?Lenovo Ideapad y480 Dawn Grey core i7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florin Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 UEFI works with GPT disk drives. You must create a bootable USB stick with Rufus application (choose UEFI when creating the bootable image). Afterwards make sure you have UEFI selected in BIOS and boot from the USB stick. When the image loads go to repair my computer and choose advanced, run cmd: 1. diskpart 2. list disk 3. select disk 1 (depends which nr is assigned to your SSD). 4. clean 5. convert GPT 6. exit 7. reboot 8. Now install Windows 8 like you always do. The SSD device came by default in MBR type (MasterBoot Record). UEFI doesn't work with MBR. The advantages of UEFI are : faster boot time, license of Windows 8 assigned to your HW, it's injected into your BIOS, and above all this it's far more secure than Legacy boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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