I am not too familiar with Windows 8.1, but in my quest for an answer I did find tricks that other people have used to unlock their UEFI settings, but none of them gave me a legacy boot. Fortunately, I was able to get control of the secure boot by adding a password to my BIOS. Even the Secure boot was greyed out and could not be disabled. Rebooting into the BIOS to disable it, I find the CFM/Legacy option is hidden from me. So I opted for the next best thing: since I am not intent on keeping Win8.1, I don't need UEFI at all. Tried both dd (Cygwin 6) and Rufus (MBR for BIOS/UEFI since I want it to be bootable for both). So I downloaded a live image of my favourite distro: Crunchbang, but I can't for the life of me, make a UEFI-bootable USB stick from it. And I am considering installing Linux on it maybe Win7, but I'd need to get a USB CD for that. I bought an Acer Aspire E1-510P-4459 with Windows 8.1.
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