eee PCs Boot Booster
Thursday, 3. September 2009 10:12 - daniel - Other - 6 Comments
All eee PCs have a feature called Boot Booster. This caches the Bios and Video Bios onto the HDD and speeds up booting by a few seconds.
To enable it you have to set up a primary partition on the first HDD with at least 8 MB and the type code 0xEF.
After the next reboot the Bios will cache itself into this partition and a new option is available in the Boot options called Boot Booster. Enable it and the eee PC will skill Bios loading and Bios configuration and will directly load the Boot Loader.
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Juan Mares - Wednesday, 25. November 2009 8:26
I just got a 1005ha and accidentally deleted the boost partition. im running windows 7 starter and I dont know where to type the 0xEF. any help would be appreciated
Daniel - Thursday, 26. November 2009 16:02
First create a new partition with at least 8 MB. The type doesn't matter for now. Maybe you have to resize the Windows partition or reformat your hard disk.
Now, boot Linux from an USB drive (e.g. Puppy Linux or Knoppix), open a terminal and start fdisk. You need to be root to do that. Now follow the on screen dialogs to change your partition type.
I'm sure there are other and easier ways to do this and there are other partitioning tools out there that can change the partition type, but I haven't tried anything else.
0xEF is "EFI" by the way. Also see this list of partition types.
nima - Saturday, 27. October 2012 18:44
current password is forget
definingsound - Tuesday, 6. November 2012 18:47
This process can be accomplished entirely within Windows, to avoid the pain in the ass of linux completely. Linux is certainly not necessary to work with EFI partitions, and in fact Microsoft has a very powerful partitioning program included in Windows 7 or 8: from the command prompt, run the command DISKPART. Then do a LIST DISK, so that you can SELECT DISK 0. Then do a LIST PARTITION so that you can SELECT PARTITION 4. Then simply SET ID=EF. DISKPART will think about it for a couple of seconds, and then report success!
Walter - Thursday, 22. August 2013 7:49
When I try to do that it works until i get to SET ID=EF. then it tells me : the volume or partition is in use, to continue use OVERRIDE parameters then I am stuck ....Can you please help...
Adam - Sunday, 10. July 2016 18:32
Thanks definingsound !
Your solution worked like a charm. I installed Windows 10 Pro 32bit on my 1005ha and it runs very well (for a low performance machine) but Boot Booster was missing in the BIOS.
I used the Windows Disk Management (in Computer Management) to shrink the C:\ partition so that i could make 50MB of unallocated space. I then right clicked the new space to create the partition with the Simple wizard thing (don't give it a drive letter and don't format it). Then I followed your instructions.
I will probably upgrade to 2GB and a solid state drive for better performance