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UEFI format troubles

W1LL1z
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I am trying to fix my Mom's Acer Aspire E1-510P-2671. The hard drive got corrupted, so I formatted it. When trying to run win8 through a flash drive, it didn't show up. I then just installed on another computer and put the hdd back into the laptop, still didn't recognize. I have secure boot disabled, though it is still not recognizing anything. Is there any special thing I need for for it to show up in the boot manager? Any help is much appreciated!

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I am trying to fix my Mom's Acer Aspire E1-510P-2671. The hard drive got corrupted, so I formatted it. When trying to run win8 through a flash drive, it didn't show up. I then just installed on another computer and put the hdd back into the laptop, still didn't recognize. I have secure boot disabled, though it is still not recognizing anything. Is there any special thing I need for for it to show up in the boot manager? Any help is much appreciated!

Yes, if the computer is UEFI, it needs to partitioned as a GPT disk and not a MBR disk.

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Thanks, I'll try that now. Why is this though?  I haven't used Win8 nor super UEFI shenanigans before.

I think it's a way of the computer/Windows being able to find the files to boot off of the disk. Something like that. Might be wrong.

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Thanks, I'll try that now. Why is this though?  I haven't used Win8 nor super UEFI shenanigans before.

GPT is part of the UEFI spec, and all PCs that have UEFI should also have the boot drive in GPT.

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Yes, GPT has many advantages over MBR, e.g it can have more than 4 partitions.

*More than 4 primary partitions.

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