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		sdflhasjd 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Get PC BIOS back on UEFI only system I think I remember Windows 7 (and maybe even Vista) supported UEFI natively.

justsomehnguy 11 months ago [–]

It's a mishmash. Vista and 7 can't boot from the GPT partitions and overall widespread UEFI support on the hardware is ~2013, way beyond Vista and very late in 7 lifecycle.

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