Win8 determines how the system startup type is UEFI or BIOS

Windows boot mode can be divided into UEFI and BIOS. Under Win8 system, many users do not know whether their Win8 system is UEFI boot or BIOS boot. The Windows boot mode is related to the system installation, so it is important to determine the Windows boot type. So how do you determine the Windows boot method?

The most troublesome method:

When installing the operating system, the installer collects some necessary information, and the startup mode of the computer is one of them. Find the setupact.log file in your computer's C:\\Windows\\Panther folder, open it with Notepad, and search for Detected Boot Environment, where you can see how the system boots.

The smartest method:

If you know the relationship between GPT and UEFI boot, then you probably know that Windows wants to boot from GPT hard drive and must start in UEFI mode. (The opposite is not true). Look at the hard disk type in the disk management, if it is GPT, then the computer must be UEFI boot. Open disk management, right click on the main hard disk, if it appears "converted to GPT disk", then the hard disk is MBR type; if it appears "converted to MBR disk", the hard disk is GPT type (because it is the main Hard disk, this item is gray unavailable state).

Experts use this method:

Press Win+R to open the run, enter msinfo32, and press Enter to view the system information. In the BIOS mode, if "Traditional" is displayed, it means that the system startup mode is Legacy BIOS; if it is UEFI, UEFI is displayed.

The above three methods can be used to check whether the Win8 system is booted by UEFI or BIOS. Here, Xiaobian recommends that the user use the latter two methods, the operation is simple, and the view is clear at a glance.