uEFI Motherboard and GPT (GUID partition tables) Support

ActiveImage Protector 1st to Support BIOS Replacement

ActiveImage Protector is the 1st to support uEFI mother boards / GPT (GUID partition tables) system and boot volumes

The GUID Partition Table (GPT) was introduced as a part of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) initiative. GPT provides a more flexible mechanism for partitioning disks than the older Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning scheme that has been common to PCs. GPT disks can grow to a very large size. The number of partitions on a GPT disk is not constrained by temporary schemes such as container partitions as defined by the MBR Extended Boot Record (EBR).

What’s a uEFI Mother Board? UEFI which stands for “Unified Extensible Firmware Interface” is set to replace the current BIOS, which has been around from the beginning of desktop computing, beginning in 2011. UEFI motherboards using GPT (GUID partition table) takes advantage of 64 bit addressing, this allows for a staggering 9.4 ZB or Zettabyte is 9,400,000,000 Terrabytes (TB) or 9 trillion 400 million. While we certainly don't need that much storage (yet) this new technology also makes installing hardware easier and increases stability.

Some of the available uEFI Mother Boards include:

Dell PowerEdge T610, R710 Tower and Rack Servers; M610, M710 Blade Servers

HP EliteBook Mobile Workstation, Notebook PC and tablet PCs (e.g., 8530p, 8530w, 8730w, 6930p, 2730p, etc.) HP Compaq NoteBook PCs (e.g., 6735s, 6735b, 6730s, 2230s, etc.

IBM System x3550 M2, Blade Center HS22, iDataPlex dx360 M2, IBM x3450 server, etc.

Intel motherboards DP55WB, DP55WG, DP55Kg, DP55SB, DP43TF, DG43NB, DG41TY, DQ45EK, DQ45CB, DG45ID, DG45FC, DG41RQ, DG22BU, DG22FB

MSI Motherboards (P45D3 Platinum, Efinity (only available in Taiwan)

Panasonic (Class 2) Panasonic Toughbook CF-U1 (Atom UMPC)