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2. How to upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit version of Windows 10 - AOL

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   Select the "Create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) for another PC" option. Create installation media. Click the Next button. Clear the "Use the recommended options for this ...

3. EFI system partition - Wikipedia

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   EFI system partition. The EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) system partition or ESP is a partition on a data storage device (usually a hard disk drive or solid-state drive) that is used by computers that have the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). When a computer is booted, UEFI firmware loads files stored on the ESP to start ...

4. UEFI - Wikipedia

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   They can use different I/O protocols, but SPI is the most common. Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI, / ˈjuːɪfaɪ / or as an acronym) [c] is a specification that defines an architecture for the platform firmware used for booting a computer's hardware and its interface for interaction with the operating system.

5. Windows Preinstallation Environment - Wikipedia

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   Windows Preinstallation Environment (also known as Windows PE and WinPE) is a lightweight version of Windows used for the deployment of PCs, workstations, and servers, or troubleshooting an operating system while it is offline. It is intended to replace MS-DOS boot disks and can be booted via USB flash drive, PXE, iPXE, [1] CD, DVD, or hard disk.

6. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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   The boot partition (or boot volume) [5] is the disk partition that contains the operating system folder, known as the system root or %systemroot% in Windows NT. [6]: 174 Before Windows 7, the system and boot partitions were, by default, the same and were given the "C:" drive letter.

7. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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   On system with BIOS firmware, the BIOS invokes MBR boot code from a hard disk drive at startup. The MBR boot code and the VBR boot code are OS-specific. In Microsoft Windows, the MBR boot code tries to find an active partition (the MBR is only 512 bytes), then executes the VBR boot code of an active partition.

8. Windows 10 version history - Wikipedia

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   Windows 10 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.Microsoft described Windows 10 as an "operating system as a service" that would receive ongoing updates to its features and functionality, augmented with the ability for enterprise environments to receive non-critical updates at a slower pace or use long-term support milestones that will only receive ...

9. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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   In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager in Vista and later. [ 4 ] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory. Once all the boot and system drivers have been loaded ...