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Windows 8.1 UEFI boot? What is this?

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I build a new computer. It's 3 days old :>

 

A friend of mine suggested that I should install UEFI WIndows(whatever this means) which need GPT. I don't know what he means.

 

He just said that instead of loading BIOS, it will skip it and go direct in Windows.

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Basically UEFI has a direct tie to the OS. On some rigs, when you boot it will show the BIOS screen followed by the Windows load screen. UEFI boot makes it a PAIN IN THE ASS to get into the BIOS.

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Umm yea your friend is mistaken. UEFI or unified extensible firmware interface is basically a new form of BIOS. When you boot, the UEFI is still loaded and then you go into your OS. Doing your disk as a GPT or Guid Partition Table has little advantages for most when compared to MBR. With that being said, I have found some UEFI systems will not boot to a MBR disk.

                                                                                                                                                      

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First of all I want to say that I love this community. Damn. Every time I ask something, after 2 minutes I have 4-5 answers.

 

So, I read everyone comments.

 

From what I understood, there's no reason to install the UEFI Windows.

 

I ran a command and I saw that I have winload.exe, and not winload.efi. Also, I don't have UEFI Firmware Settings, because of the previous reason.

 

My boot time is great anyway.(12+- seconds).

 

Thanks everyone!

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Basically UEFI has a direct tie to the OS. On some rigs, when you boot it will show the BIOS screen followed by the Windows load screen. UEFI boot makes it a PAIN IN THE ASS to get into the BIOS.

 

Uh, my OS is installed in uefi mode and it's still easy to get into bios. Did I do something wrong :<

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Uh, my OS is installed in uefi mode and it's still easy to get into bios. Did I do something wrong :<

I fogot to say that I meant laptops with UEFI Windows makes it hard.

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