BIOS MODE Grey Off in XC-1785. No option to change to Legacy. What can be done?

NewXC1785
NewXC1785 Member Posts: 1 New User

I bought a XC-1785 14 gen CPU and notice the BIOS Mode is UEFI and no option to change to Legacy. Reason being a second ssd (windows 10) is added as secondary drive and there could be occasions, I need to boot from this hdd as some legacy apps cant be installed to windows 11.

If such a change is not possible with the model would appreciate workaround suggestions.

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Answers

  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 35,816 Trailblazer

    Legacy mode hasn't been used since Windows 7, so it hasn't been included on most modern systems. No need for it on Windows 10, which uses UEFI to boot. To choose to boot from a different OS just enable the boot menu in the BIOS:

    Then use F12 at boot time to display the menu and choose your W10 environment.

    Note that W10 isn't supported on your XC-1785, the chipset drivers were never produced for that old OS. You might be able to boot and run W10, but expect some instability in normal use. If you really need to run W10 for some reason you might look at installing it in a virtual machine, which won't require chipset drivers, since the hardware is abstracted in a VM, If you are running Windows 11 Home though you can't use Hyper-V and will have to use a third party VM manager.

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