Boot issues

[ubuysa]

Triumph!
My problems stemmed from changing boot priority too soon during installation.
The other thing is the problem installation was done through BIOS. While my old Kingston install was still in place I let Windows drive management format the Samsung - it formatted it as MBR. When I went to install with UEFI I was told I couldn't install to that drive because it didn't have a GPT partition system. I did a data wipe thinking that would clean the disk of all information, but I still couldn't install or re-format it and had to install with BIOS.
This time round I found that all I needed to do was delete the partition (not obvious when there was only one partition on the drive). This made the disk blank of partition type and I was able to smoothly install with UEFI and now I am booting as booting should be.
I don't know if there is any practical difference between BIOS and UEFI booting with a 128GB drive, but you do get nice and crisp screens during installation with UEFI as apposed to the blurry BIOS screens.

Cough, cough. My post #9 (https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?38183-Boot-issues&p=304301&viewfull=1#post304301).

Does the team think that UEFI might be an issue here (and consequently GPT/MBR issues)?

:clap:

 

[dogbot]

Glad it's fixed :sweatdrop:

I did mention making the drive unallocated in my 2nd post but at the time it was for a clean install with the creation of a reserved partition.

EUFI I am not clued up on. I did read something a long time back which made me a bit wary so I have stuck to MBR.

ADDED

Looks like you had good advice from all, just had to put it together.

Sweets all round.