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In the good fully functioning copy that I have of the UEFI dual boot (fast boot & secure boot enabled), that I didn't attempt to install binding on, it works amazingly: the grub screen comes up almost immediately and both LL and win8.1 load from the grub menu in less than 6 seconds! It's the binding problem that's driving me absolutely crazy... I am still going to work on this but await further feedback from you on next steps... I wondered if you could reply on that thread for the binding, so that everything is kept together in one place.
Win7 was installed from a virgin OEM DVD, laptop booted from DVD in 'UEFI mode' though the firmware was set with fast boot and secure boot both disabled. In booted fine in legacy mode. However when I put the firmware settings back to fast boot & secure boot enabled, when it rebooted it got stuck at a red screen with the message. Yes the disk was GPT etc... "Invalid signature detected. Check Secure boot Policy in setup".
I have to copies of my original win8.1 OS, thankfully, as the original one doesn't work.On the 250GB SSD is the following:900MB recovery partition 100MB EFI System Partition231.78GB OS (C:) NTFSI need to shrink C: so that I have some space for an LL2.4 reinstall. The shrink tool under Disk Management doesn't seem to work, or at least is indicating that no space is available for shrinking.
Rob, I've succeeded.I downloaded the free version of Minitool Partition Wizard and it worked a treat in shrinking the drive by 50% & healthy rebooting.
I learnt something yesterday I didn't know before: it's impossible to install win7 on a fresh drive in UEFI (only possible with CMS) on on a laptop that has had the original drive (preinstalled with win8.1) removed...
Rob, I've succeeded.I downloaded the free version of Minitool Partition Wizard and it worked a treat in shrinking the drive by 50% & healthy rebooting.EaseUS Partition was another option but after the free demo, you had to pay $39 to get the key to apply the changes. Fingers crossedthat the free one doesn't come with malware...RegardsMike
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