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   From: ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand   
      
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       At this point, I realized that the EFI-detecting capabilities of the   
       Windows install get broken when you transfer it to a USB stick.   
      
       With my newfound knowledge, I rebooted the system to the USB-based   
       system rescue drive that Apple provides and wiped out the drive   
       partitions, creating one new one with a MBR boot sector instead of the   
       Apple GUID one, and formatted it as MSDOS FAT. I then pulled the USB   
       stick, plugged in the external DVD drive and booted the system while   
       holding down the Option key. The Windows install started.   
      
   Except soon, it will be commonplace to have hard drives of a size where MBR   
   partitioning is not an option. What will Windows Seven do then?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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