Manually install Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8 and 7 in UEFI mode (GPT)

4. Windows installation

Your computer restarts automatically and the Windows logo appears.

Wait a few minutes until you reach this screen.

Important : the country selected by default here may not match the one you previously selected in the Windows installer.

It is therefore necessary that you select your country again here.

Same for the keyboard layout.
Select the correct language for your keyboard again.

For the remaining configuration steps, these are the usual steps.
If needed, refer to one of our tutorials:

Windows is installed.

5. Partition and GUID Partition Table (GPT)

If you open file explorer, you will see that a partition "Windows X (C:)" appears in "This PC".

Right click "Manage" on "This PC".

In the "Computer management" window that appears, go to the "Disk management" section.
As you can see, there are 2 partitions on your hard drive or SSD.

an EFI system partition (as you can see in the list at the top of the window).
the normal partition "Windows X (C:)" where Windows is installed.

If you have a good memory, you may have noticed that the 128MB MSR partition did not appear here.

To see the 128MB MSR special partition, you will need to open a command prompt and launch DiskPart from it.

Batch

diskpart

Click "Yes" when the user account control (UAC) window appears.
Then, in the DiskPart window, display the list of disks present in your computer.

Batch

list disk

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Disk ###   Status         Size     Free     Dyn  GPT
---------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
Disk 0     Online           80 GB      0 B

Select the disk where your "Windows X (C:)" partition is located.
In our case: disk 0.

Batch

sel disk 0

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Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

Display the list of partitions present on this disk.

Batch

list partition

As you can see below, there are indeed 3 partitions on your disk:

partition 1 corresponds to the EFI system partition with a capacity of 100 MB.
partition 2 corresponds to the MSR (Microsoft Reserved) partition with a capacity of 128 MB.
partition 3 corresponds to the "Windows X (C:)" partition where Windows is installed and with a capacity of several tens of GB (in our case: 79 GB).

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Partition ###  Type              Size        Offset
-------------  ----------------  -------     --------
Partition 1    System             100 MB     1024 KB
Partition 2    Reserved           128 MB      101 MB
Partition 3    Primary             79 GB      229 MB

To see what type of partition table is used on this disk, right-click "Properties" on it.

In the "Volumes" tab of the window that appears, you will be able to see that the partition type is "GUID Partition Table (GPT)".
Which means that your computer is booting in UEFI mode on your Windows installation.