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Boot Windows 10 MBR into full protected UEFI

Windows 10 AwesomeSauce is not a product. It is a FREE guide
to boot a MBR (Master Boot Record also known as Legacy)install of windows 10 into UEFI mode.


Thats right it can be done and Im gona show you how.

#1 First u need to make a new FAT32 PRIMARY partition(50MB is more than enough). this can be done
with many different programs. I used Gparted because Its FREE. search it on Google.


We want to use Gparted to leave some unallocated space before the C: Partition.


UEFI Boot is not dependent on the EFI filesystem. All that is required is a FAT32 PRIMARY partition.

Important!! use Windows disk manager to make the FAT32 partition we only need Gparted to unallocate the space.

Windows disk manager will only unallocate data after a partition and, Its not wise to mess with the System Reserved.

If we use Gparted to create the FAT32 partition windows will not boot afterwards.

#2 Now that thats done. Run the Command Prompt as ADMINISTRATOR

#3 Enter

bcdboot C:\windows /s E: /f UEFI

C:\windows is the place where windows is installed

and E: is the location of the FAT32 Primary partition we just made.
you want to change E: to what ever letter your fat32 partition is.

Thats it!! now you can boot in mbr and Uefi.

Created by Jacob Valim for Sam Small's Centralia College IT Internship 2015 http://www.centralia.edu