Start up your dilapidated computer with the USB or DVD Windows 8 recovery media in the system.
You can view the 4 minute Youtube demo to see if it’s worth it but first I want to show you something that might fix your problem for free… The fix The only draw back is that it costs between $20 and $40 depending on your flavorof Windows. If you can’t find that either then take a breath, stay composed and get Easy Recovery Essentials.ĮasyRE is a great utility because it automatically detects and repairs common problems with the bootloader, BOOTMGR and winload.exe. If you don’t have that, see if you can boot to the original Windows 8 DVD that came with the system. The example I adduced above is a good reason to have a Windows 8 USB recovery drive on hand.
#How to create efi system partition windows 8 Pc#
The bootloader is the program that “kicks off the show”.Īfter the PC finishes a sequence of hardware health checks known as a Power On Self Test (POST), the bootloader enters the scene and galvanizes the OS.īut what happens when the computer fails to boot? What do we do when the bootloader becomes damaged and the OS refuses to obey the ordinance to start? It also replaces the antiquated Master Boot Record (MBR) with the modern GUID Partition Table (GPT) so your computer can stop ignoring hard disks larger than 2TB. Your system board is the bottom part of the roll and the OS, Windows 8, is the top half.ĮFI, short for Extensible Firmware Interface, forms a delicious layer of protection against pernicious badware (Rootkits anyone?) by requiring valid digital signatures from the bootloader.
Think of EFI like the palatable center of my Italian sandwich. Then this analogy will make sense because I’m going to reference my favorite sandwich of all time: A Prosciutto, Soppressata, Italian hero with Banana peppers, fresh mozzarella and oregano.
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