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The following question is probably overload for newsgroup chatting, but some
introductory guidance would be GREATLY appreciated, especially toward the
very scant MS documentation. I've come across plenty of MS tech lit talking
*about* EFI's role in BCD, but nothing so far that has a detailed
walkthrough on formatting Vista's drive with EFI and GPT.
Does Vista SP1 actually provide a way to format a HDD in GPT, with an EFI
System Partition, and so on? I'm determined to sort out how do this, even if
it means using Win Server 2K8 to format my workstation's drive. Will BCDEdit
perform these formatting operations?
Relatedly, I'm starting to feel a bit muddled about the different partitions
I'll need to create, and whether they should be secured in any way. Here's
the order, more or less, that I assume one needs to lay them down:
1. EFI System Partition
2. Win RE partition [if possible, not joined to the BitLocker partition, so
there's better CompletePC access]
3. BitLocker partition
4. Vista x64 SP1 partition
5. OS #2
6. Files
Thanks a kerjillion.
Marty
introductory guidance would be GREATLY appreciated, especially toward the
very scant MS documentation. I've come across plenty of MS tech lit talking
*about* EFI's role in BCD, but nothing so far that has a detailed
walkthrough on formatting Vista's drive with EFI and GPT.
Does Vista SP1 actually provide a way to format a HDD in GPT, with an EFI
System Partition, and so on? I'm determined to sort out how do this, even if
it means using Win Server 2K8 to format my workstation's drive. Will BCDEdit
perform these formatting operations?
Relatedly, I'm starting to feel a bit muddled about the different partitions
I'll need to create, and whether they should be secured in any way. Here's
the order, more or less, that I assume one needs to lay them down:
1. EFI System Partition
2. Win RE partition [if possible, not joined to the BitLocker partition, so
there's better CompletePC access]
3. BitLocker partition
4. Vista x64 SP1 partition
5. OS #2
6. Files
Thanks a kerjillion.
Marty