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Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help

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On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 19:33:02 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> It's not clear to me what you mean by "free up the primary drive slot".
> Do you want to remove the drive (free the slot) or only remove its
> contents (free the drive) ?
> 
> Also, why do you want to do this ?

Thanks for your reply. I have been using Linux and Mac for over a decade 
now. The Pc in question is a Dell Inspiron that is now a few years old. 
Of course it came with Windows 7.

I have two drives installed. The primary if you will has Debian. The 
second drive is for distro hopping. Away from Mac, Debian has always been 
my main distro.

The hard drive with Windows was part of the Dell long enough to get 
registered and get it updated. Then it was replaced with a fresh drive, 
and Debian was installed. I then added a second drive for distro hopping.

I want to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10. Sooner or later this PC will 
be passed on. In Windows land, Windows insists it must be the C drive and 
have EUFI enabled. Neither here nor there,

So wanting to upgrade to win 10, I thought it should be a simple matter 
to copy Debian on the second drive, and put in a EUFI enabled boot on the 
second drive, tell bios to boot from the second drive.

Then Windows can have the C drive, get updated, taken out and placed in 
the closet (again).

My dilemma is, I have ignored the EUFI concern on this pc by bios 
disabling. Now, I'm not sure how to get a EUFI boot loader installed on 
what will be the second (bootable) drive.

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Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-12 05:33 +0000
  Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-12 14:40 +0200
    Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-12 15:41 +0000
      Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2016-07-12 18:02 +0200
        Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-12 19:44 +0200
          Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2016-07-12 19:52 +0200
      Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-12 19:33 +0200
        Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-12 18:52 +0000
          Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-12 21:49 +0200
            Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-13 00:04 +0000
              Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-07-13 01:02 +0000
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-13 05:30 +0000
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-07-13 14:32 +0000
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-13 20:04 +0200
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-13 18:06 +0000
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-13 20:03 +0200
                Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2016-07-13 19:59 +0200
          Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help "Peter \"Shaggy\" Haywood" <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2016-07-13 18:54 +1000
            Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-07-13 23:24 +0000
              Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help azigni <azigni@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-14 01:28 +0000
      Re: Copy or move hd and update to EUFI help William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-07-12 18:43 +0000

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