If you have a pc that came with windows7 or earlier, even if updated to win8/10, it still likely boots windows in MBR mode, (that is, without EFI mode). Due to limitations set by Microsoft, many of EasyBCD's multi-booting features cannot be used in EFI mode and have been disabled That is, If you install and run EasyBCD on such a pc, it says:ĮasyBCD has detected that your machine is currently booting in EFI mode. ![]() EasyBCD cannot add iso-files to the windows boot menu in this case. If you have a windows-pc new enough that it came with windows10, windows usually requires EFI mode to boot. Note: For EFI-mode, it seems not as easy to do, as EasyBCD can't do it, but seems as tho the slightly more complicated Grub2win is needed, and I haven't tried that yet. ![]() That is, the windows boot menu lets you boot windows, but also lets you choose to boot Porteus-Kiosk.iso file from the hard-drive (via EasyBCD's grub2), without any usb-stick or cd/dvd being needed. Below is a trick I used to allow a MBR-mode windows10 laptop to dual-boot windows, or the Porteus-Kiosk.iso file on un-encrypted windows drive C, or drive-D for that matter: ntfs or fat32 drive-d. There are 2 ways pcs can boot: the newer "EFI" mode and the older "MBR" mode, typically chosen in the bios setup. A quick 2019 update for newbies coming from windows.
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