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Warning: Your motherboard MUST support UEFI!!
Before we start this, I did this using Windows, if anyone is aware of a good Archive Viewer for OS X please reply for those without access to a windows machine.
Notes:
Requirements:
Pre-Step
Procedure:
Last Step:
Confirmed Boards:
Before we start this, I did this using Windows, if anyone is aware of a good Archive Viewer for OS X please reply for those without access to a windows machine.
Notes:
- I do believe only the 64bit version of Windows 7 can be installed on a GPT partition. Also, your motherboard MUST support UEFI for this to work.
Requirements:
- Motherboard with UEFI
- 4gb+ Flash Drive
- Windows 7 (64 Bit) Disk Image/DVD
- Archive Viewer
- Windows: 7-Zip[/*:m:1brxyret]
- Mac: Please reply with one that will work with ".WIM"[/*:m:1brxyret]
Pre-Step
- Make sure the flash drive is formatted to FAT32, I haven't tried it using NTFS, so just make sure it is FAT32. If anyone tries this using NTFS, please leave feedback if it works. Personally I hate FAT32![/*:m:1brxyret]
Procedure:
- Copy content of Windows 7 Disk Image/DVD to Flash Drive[/*:m:1brxyret]
- On the Flash Drive, Navigate to \EFI\Microsoft\[/*:m:1brxyret]
- Copy entire Boot folder[/*:m:1brxyret]
- Go back to \EFI\, and paste the Boot folder[/*:m:1brxyret]
- You should now have a Boot folder and a Microsoft folder inside \EFI\[/*:m:1brxyret]
- Now head back to the root of the flash drive, and navigate to \sources\[/*:m:1brxyret]
- In Windows, with 7-Zip installed, right click install.wim, and click 7-Zip>Open archive[/*:m:1brxyret]
- While inside install.wim, navigate to \1\Windows\Boot\EFI\[/*:m:1brxyret]
- Locate bootmgfw.efi and extract/copy this to the Desktop[/*:m:1brxyret]
- Now rename the file you just copied to the desktop to bootx64.efi[/*:m:1brxyret]
- Now navigate back to the root of the Flash Drive, and copy bootx64.efi to \EFI\Boot\[/*:m:1brxyret]
Last Step:
- You are now finished, restart your computer and boot from the flash drive. You will no longer get the GPT warning/error when selecting a drive for Windows 7 to be installed on.
Confirmed Boards:
- Asus P8Z68 Deluxe (My Current Board)