If you purchased your Macbook Pro with the graphics card upgrade, you actually have TWO graphics cards inside. From there, your Mac can proceed into either native UEFI or switch to legacy BIOS (actually it’s UEFI simulating a BIOS via the EFI-CSM module). When you power on your Mac, it first runs the UEFI firmware. Some additional notes if you want to deviate from the above or want to learn more UEFI or Legacy BIOS – avoid endless reboots Their presence kills Windows System Restore functionality.
list disk (note your disk’s number … like a 1 or 2 etc.).At the Windows setup hit Shift+F10 for a command prompt.WARNING: Backup all existing data because it will be deleted! If you’re already in pure MBR (not hybrid) mode, skip this entire section. Convert your hard drive to an MBR style hard drive.At your Mac’s bootup screen pick the DVD icon with ‘Windows’ under it (do not pick the DVD icon with EFI under it).Put it in the drive and power up your Mac with Alt/Option pressed.
#Macbook pro early 2009 vs mid 2009 windows 10
Boot the Windows 10 DVD in legacy BIOS mode.Disk encryption: Windows Bitlocker encryption.Boot mode: Legacy BIOS (not UEFI, else endless reboots with nVidia).Operating system(s): Only Windows 10 – no MacOS or Linux.Hardware: Macbook Pro (mid-2009) (with nVidia GeForce 9600M GT).But mostly because I wanted to learn a bit more about UEFI systems and their boot-up sequence. Why? Because science! And because I like Windows 10 and because Apple stopped OS support on that machine sometime back. There are the steps I took to get Windows 10 on my spare mid-2009 15″ Macbook Pro.
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