Win10 upgrade and UEFI BIOS

[boomerang]

So, I did an in-place upgrade to Win10 on my desktop I put together a few years back. It has a UEFI motherboard. The OS I had on it at build was Windows 7 which is of course not UEFI compliant.

I'm tackling a Win10 in-place upgrade on my latop today and I realized there were going to be a few minor challenges because I wanted to Image the drive in it first to a network share. I poked around in the BIOS after going through the rigmarole required in 8.1 to get there and got it set up to boot off the optical drive so I could Image outside of windows. I'm all set in that regard.

But that got me thinking that I am able to access the BIOS using the DEL key on my desktop that is now on Win10. I'm not certain if I even want to take advantage of the security provisions provided by a UEFI system but I'm thinking I'd like to know how to enable those provisions. I may at some point decide to do a clean install. It would be nice to have it all set up "right" if I do so.

Nothing is jumping out at me in the BIOS. I actually see something to enable and disable in the BIOS on my inexpensive Toshiba laptop.

The board in my desktop is an ASUS F1A75-V, but I am not necessarily asking for specific advice, just general advice. I'm wondering if I can find a way to enable UEFI at this point such that the BIOS can only be reached through various clicks and a reboot within Win10, if I will fubar my current install.

Any advice appreciated.

 

[TeknoBug]

Look in Sevenforum or Eightforum they have a tutorial on enabling UEFI in regedit otherwise if you have Windows installed on legacy then change it to UEFI it won't boot but once you change a flag in regedit it'll boot. I did it a couple times.

Can't really help you with BIOS, each and every BIOS is different, it's usually under "boot" or something similar.

 

[boomerang]

Look in Sevenforum or Eightforum they have a tutorial on enabling UEFI in regedit otherwise if you have Windows installed on legacy then change it to UEFI it won't boot but once you change a flag in regedit it'll boot. I did it a couple times.

Can't really help you with BIOS, each and every BIOS is different, it's usually under "boot" or something similar.

Thanks. Yeah, I wasn't looking for specific advice on my BIOS. I'll figure that out and anyway, it's the wrong forum.

 

[Kenmitch]

The bios is uEFI or it isn't. Nothing to change in there. The windows install can go either way. If you want a uEFI install you just boot the media in uEFI mode. Depends on rig but maybe F12 for boot option menu? You can go into bios and select boot device if needed also. Example would show as DVD or UEFI DVD.

 

[Puffnstuff]

The partitions are very different between mbr and uefi installations with the latter creating 3 of them. UEFI is the fastest interface and provides the best performance.