Dear Daniel, You don't mention what is "the prettiest desktop there ever was", but I reckon that it's a) a 64-bit PC and b) it's modern enough to have UEFI, not the standard BIOS. Therefore, the drive is a GPT-partitioned drive (as that's UEFI's requirement) and you have a /boot or /boot/efi partition somewhere in the table layout you provides us with. It does not necessarily need to be called "EFI partition" or something of that sort. Per my old Windows 7 installed, Windows used a rather small boot partition of ~200 mb. Your Windows 8 install is consistent with that observation. In addition, you have something similar in your Windows 10 installation, from the first 1mb bit onward and spanning ~105 MB. It's also tagged as "boot".
Best regards, Andy On 12 October 2016 at 10:31, Daniel Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/10/16 22:47, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > As far as I know, you can’t use UEFI on a msdos partitioned hard drive. > > So… are you not just using an old but known and stable BIOS? > > Honestly, that hadn't occurred to me. The BIOS is fancy (lots of colour > and supports a mouse!) and I thought that Windows 10 only worked with > UEFI. Alright, I'll proceed under the impression that I'm working with a > standard BIOS and write Grub to the MBR as in the Old Days. Thanks for the > clarity on this. > >
