


iso file using "Add New Entry"->"ISO" to boot into Fedora 33 to wipe local disk, repartition and clean install Windows 10 and make a Fedora/Windows 10 dual boot, because I don't have USB Flashdrives that I can burn the image to, and I am able to do all these things.īut EasyBCD wouldn't let me create ISO boot entry, the option was greyed I then deleted recovery partition using diskpart, no adverse effect observed except for EasyBCD refusing to run.Įverytime I tried to run it, cursor rolled, observed disk usage increase in taskmgr, and it quickly drops, and that is it, no EasyBCD window ever showed up, there wasn't even a single error message, also EasyBCD showed up in taskmgr Processes tab Background Processes section and then instantly became suspended and magically disappeared without trace, the whole process was less than 2 seconds(I need time to open taskmgr and scroll down). I wanted to create boot entry for a Linux LiveCD. Set by Microsoft, many of EasyBCD's multi-booting features cannot be used in EFI mode I opened EasyBCD 2.4, it gave me this: EFI Bootloader Detected!ĮasyBCD has detected that your machine is currently booting in EFI mode.

Msinfo32.exe BIOS mode is legacy, I had run powercfg -h off in cmd, there is no "Secure Boot" option in BIOS settings So my system is not booted using EFI Bootloader. iso file to install Windows 10 20H2!), mounted and clicked setup.exe, after some steps it shows:"Windows can't be installed because this PC has an unsupported disk layout for UEFI firmware." It means my disk is MBR disk, but strangely there is a recovery partition(created by installation of current Windows OS) Tried system reset it said no media detected(or something like that) It must be very easy to do, I just don't know it, yet.įor more context, I tried a repair installation using Win10_20H2_v2_English_圆4.iso (I used the same.

So how to add boot entries for Linux LiveCDs on Windows 10 using Command Line Interface or any boot editor other than EasyBCD? Or how can I fix EasyBCD that isn't working? I really am very experienced in Command Prompt and PowerShell, and I use *.cpl *.msc *.exe found in System32 in cmd. I know I can use bcdboot for Windows, but here I am talking about Linux LiveCDs.Īnd Googling this won't give any useful results(irrelevant or easybcd, and I somehow can't open the search result dkai.*): Google Search:how to create boot entry for livecd on windows 10 I don't have any USB flash drives right now. How to add boot entries for Linux LiveCD's on Windows 10? I used to use EasyBCD 2.4 to achieve this, trouble is I can't use it right now, tried uninstalling it and then reinstalling it, it just won't open(not displaying a window, also I can't find it in taskmgr).
