![]() New Macs (generally around 2014) stopped supporting legacy booting and only supported EFI booting. When you first boot your Mac, and hold down the option key, then firmware on the Mac scans the available drives and needs to determine if Windows should be booted via EFI or via legacy booting. ![]() EFI booting was supported on Windows Servers first, and Windows 7 had some limited support, but it was not until Windows 8 was EFI booting fully supported on Mac hardware. Legacy is based on a master boot record and is the way that Windows booted until EFI booting was introduced. Windows can boot two different ways: EFI and what I call ‘legacy’. This may sound straight forward, but it gets complicated pretty quickly depending on the version of Windows and the Mac hardware. ![]() People view Winclone as a cloning and backup/restore utility, but one key function that Winclone does is make sure Windows boots on your Mac.
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