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NOTE: You might receive a 'Windows can't be installed on drive 0' warning, but as long as you can click on the Next button, you're fine. Select the 'Primary' partition 4, and click/tap on Next. You will notice that the disk has now been formatted as GPT with 4 partitions. When you are finished, click/tap on New, Apply (for full size of disk), and OK.

Delete all partitions/volumes on the disk # (ex: Disk 0) that you want to install Windows 8 as UEFI on until that disk # shows as u nallocated space. Do steps 2 to 7 in the tutorial at the link below, and return.Ħ. Press whatever key (ex: F11) it shows to boot to your motherboard's boot menu, and select to boot from the listed UEFI DVD or UEFI USB. How to Boot from a USB Drive within Windows 8 and 8.1Ĥ. Enable or Disable Always Automatically Boot PC from USB Drive in Windows To Go Startup Options

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