I have googled a bit and found that UEFI is newer system than GPT and that with UEFI you can create almost any number of partitions. So what are the other reasons (if any) choosing UEFI against GPT on Windows 8?
UEFI is a basic piece of software that runs first on your computer when you turn it on. It's the successor of BIOS. GPT is a way hard disks store partition information. It's the successor of MBR. BIOS uses MBR, UEFI uses GPT (except for legacy mode). In the sense of this, your question doesn't make sense. I suggest you read some wikipedia or a tech site about these things, then you'll understand better.
No,he shouldn't ask that.. well,not us at any rate - there are countless wikis,tutorials,howtos,MS support pages,etc that cover that. I'd bet that there's even several 'what is uefi and why is it better than bios' threads just in this subsection of the forums alone.. edit: An example search of "uefi vs bios" yields 6.1 million results,so no sense in starting yet another thread on yet another forum about it.
I thought that when you boot from a UEFI USB for example, you MUST create a GPT partition rather than an MBR partition they work in harmony right?
lol... im really annoying i know... actually i did a google search at the past and i forgot what i have read and now i mixed the things a little bit I have googled again after this thread (some hours ago)and i think i learned a little bit: UEFI is the new competitor of BIOS GPT can be done only with UEFI MBR is for BIOS but can be done also with UEFI UEFI is faster You can make a bootable hard disk larger than 2 GB only in UEFI thanks
Come on guys stop making fun of me im really noob.. about programming i know only stupid things but my dream is one day to be a programmer
lol well actually I was making fun of the video, but it does have some insight to the differences (or LACK there of) between UEFI and Legacy, as far as boot speeds go, wake/sleep is interesting. I figure if I shake a leg once or twice more before walking to the computer, I would never know if it booted 5 or 10 seconds slower than the last time.
GPT first was used to overcome the hard drive limitations of the operating systems of the time .. As harddrives became larger than 2.2 tb running an MBR was no longer possible unless one of the limited 4 partitions was an extended partition .. When this all started I many times and then you add UEFI to the mix and you have a pretty steep learning curve .. So be patient and read a lot and you'll get it
PC first starts BIOS, then you can let it start EFI or stay in BIOS, the term Extended Firmware Interface says it all.