(probably GPT would have been a better choice for multiple reasons) and afterwards (or rather copied an existing installation) to the SSD, using normal MBR partitions

I only use Windows for gaming, so I won’t spend precious SSD space for it, so I installed Linux So my situation was like this: I bought a new PC with one 250GB SSD (Samsung SSD 840 Evo Series),Ī 3TB hard disk and the aforementioned UEFI-capable Mainboard. To boot this and GRUB to chainload (UEFI) Windows. How to make an existing Linux (Debian Wheezy) installation boot via EFI (using grub-efi) I’ll describe how I got Windows to install using GPT partitions on a 3TB harddisk, To make things more challenging, Windows doesn’t offer creating a GPT partition tableĪnd partitions in the graphical installer (at least for Win7), so one has to use cmd.exe.īut don’t worry, the Linux part also sucks :-) Hacks and can’t have a continuous partition from 2TB) - and Windows can only You have to use GPT partitions (instead of the old MBR style which only Starting with Windows 8, the Windows installer should support Note: This refers to Windows 7 (and probably Vista and Server 2008Īnd older).