enable installation of Windows 32 bit via uefi

enable installation of Windows 32 bit via uefi

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    freddy
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    Hey Guys,

    I am trying to install windows 32 bit on my iwork8 to bump up RAM availability

    unfortunately when trying to run the windows 10 32bit install image thru uefi i get the following error

    Image type IA32  is not supported by this X64 shell

    i figure there is a way to switch the uefi environment from 64 to 32 bit but can’t see an option in the bios or under the help menu within the uefi shell, has anyone done this? maybe the firmware just isn’t compatible with 32 bit and needs to be reloaded

     

    #61610
    OptoMan
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    no and yes and no — the bios is actually uefi and it’s 64 bit.  it will only boot uefi mode to 64 bit operating systems.  windows can only recognize GPT partition tables when using windows uefi boot mode.  our flash device has so many partitions it cannot use classic mbr partitions which allow for 4 primaries, one of those can be extended which allows a tonne of logical partitions inside.  our android uses gpt and for solid reasons.

    there is such thing as a custom hybrid-mbr-gpt where there’s an mbr table with mbr partitions in the middle somewhere of a gpt disk.  flakily marked to not be tampered with, and custom set up with bios windows boot loader.  the bios booted windows will not be able to see other partitions.  and that’s IF fast-boot allow csm to boot bios operating systems and you want to spend 12 hours installing windows.

    what I’m saying is that yes, 64 bit windows requires more ram — however, windows 10 is way better at managing memory than previous version .. task manager memory usage might not look like it, but that’s how good it is.

    64 bit processors show obvious improvement with audio, video, cryptography, compression/decompression and all gaming.

     

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