You can obtain this from an install of 64-bit Windows 7 - look in C:\Windows\Boot\EFI. Ensure that the drive correctly boots on a BIOS system. 4GB USB boot drive with Windows 7 64-bit installer - there are plenty of guides around the internet for creating one.However, if you create a USB boot drive for the Windows 7 installer, the system will only boot in BIOS mode, and the installer will not let you install in EFI mode to GPT disks.Īfter a fair bit of googling and general hacking around, I've managed to get my P8P67-M Pro to boot the Windows installer from a USB drive in EFI mode. Booting the installer from the DVD will apparently boot you straight in EFI mode as you'd expect (I don't have Windows on disc so I wouldn't know). I got my replacement SSD at the weekend, and I wanted to install Windows so that it would take advantage of the native UEFI firmware of my Sandy Bridge motherboard.
Just copy the entire contents to a FAT32 USB drive and it should boot correctly in native EFI mode. Windows 8 users: This stuff is now unnecessary.
