Uefi-ntfs Alternatives

uefi-ntfs reviews and mentions

• How long would it take for USB 2.0 to boot windows2go?
  1 project | /r/windows | 26 Mar 2023

  Because we use UEFI:NTFS to ensure that:

• Does anyone know why Rufus creates a second "UEFI" volume that's <1MB?
  1 project | /r/software | 24 Feb 2023

  Indeed, that 1 MB volume is the UEFI:NTFS partition that is described here.

• MSI's (In)Secure Boot
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2023

  > Can you please link me some articles/references?

  Well explained here: https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/29/remote-assertion-is-co...

  So the issue is not the SecureBoot itself, but the ways it can and has been and will be leveraged against the user. If a desktop computer example is not enough, look at how Android phones have increasingly tightened down everything. You can't just take any model and install a custom OS (aka ROM in Android community). It was universally easy 10 years ago, that's why Cyanogenmod became so popular. Now your choices are very limited.

  > \> > But that is besides the fact that these acts of aggression

  A great thread and arguments provided here, how Microsoft (who love open source, according to own PR) will not sign anything GPLv3 for SecureBoot: https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs/issues/20#issuecomment-...

  Microsoft has the defacto monopoly over the signature process, because nobody embeds any CAs in UEFI except for Microsoft's. What would be a user-friendly way? To preload UEFI with major Linux distros' keys, disabled by default, with an easy first-time setup menu to select what to do.

  My laptop came with SecureBoot enabled by default although being "OS: FreeDOS" on paper. I had to figure out to disable it to boot into a live distro else it fell into an EFI shell.

  > Vote with your wallet, don't buy the hardware.

  > ... I am much more concerned about Intel ME and AMD PSP, where's the outrage about that?

  With this I just want to say the wallet argument doesn't work when something slowly becomes the status quo and it takes experts/activists to fight back (a minority by numbers).

  > I still can't easily utilise a TPM [...] and nobody bothered to integrate the functionality?

  I agree, I'd have liked to enforce SecureBoot post-installation but it is too much hassle for me, I think only RedHat made good improvements in this area where it's actually easily usable (auto signing the kernel image etc.)

  > Security isn't about what's unlikely, it's about the entire chain.

  ... But if I followed through, then still the weakest point is/becomes the keyboard. It would be trivial for an evil maid to add a keylogging device between your desktop and the physical keyboard. Do you check the rear IO on each boot? The considerations differ for laptops where you can't just plug something inbetween and need to disassemble it (time required: over night or airport luggage).

• Windows 10 ISO with a large WIM - can’t boot
  1 project | /r/sysadmin | 2 Dec 2022

  Please see here or here.

• Looking for help installing a specific distro on a very peculiar computer.
  1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 27 Oct 2022

  I am the developer of Rufus, and I have spent an inordinate amount of time making sure that, YES, EVEN UEFI COMPUTERS THAT ARE "ALLEGEDLY" ONLY MEANT TO SUPPORT FAT32 FOR BOOT CAN ACTUALLY BOOT FROM THE NTFS PARTITION CREATED BY RUFUS (through the magic of a little solution called UEFI:NTFS). See also this entry from our FAQ.

• Rufus made 2 UEFI partitions. Which one to choose?
  1 project | /r/techsupport | 22 Oct 2022

  For more details about the second UEFI:NTFS partition, see https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs.

• I made a USB for Build 25120 with Rufus and for some reason it is also displaying the UEFI partition for it. It is meant to happen?
  1 project | /r/windowsinsiders | 17 Jun 2022

  Rufus dev here. That's the UEFI:NTFS partition, needed to boot computers that don't have a native NTFS driver and it is completely harmless (and uses a negligible amount of space since it's just 1 MB). So, yes, this is meant to happen.

• Anyone able to install windows on steam deck while only owning a mac?
  2 projects | /r/SteamDeck | 3 May 2022

  So if you want to copy the contents of the ISO as is, you need to extract them to exFAT or NTFS (which are file systems that the Windows installer can also read outside of FAT), but this means that you may have to install an exFAT or NTFS UEFI driver to chain load the Windows installer, which is why utilities like Rufus and WoeUSB add a 1 MB UEFI:NTFS partition at the end of the drive, that takes care of that.

• Can't get Windows 11 image to boot.
  1 project | /r/techsupport | 4 Dec 2021

  Rufus uses UEFI:NTFS, and therefore WILL allow your firmware to boot from NTFS. So, no, you don't have to use FAT32, and you should let Rufus create the drive with NTFS, as, even when using NTFS, it will create a drive that can be booted from UEFI.

• [Discussion] Tool to burn in USB a standalone media created in SCCM
  1 project | /r/SCCM | 27 Nov 2021

  If it's because Rufus creates 2 partitions, then you should read about this (UEFI:NTFS is what Rufus uses to boot drives that are NOT compatible with UEFI, such as ones where you cannot use FAT32 because they contain a file that is larger than 4 GB), and understand that the data on the NTFS partition is exactly the same as the one you'd have found on a FAT32 drive, if your data was suitable for FAT32.

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