How do you reinstall 64-bit Windows 7 in UEFI mode?

I have a PC with a single hard disk and, a while ago now, I installed 64-bit Windows 7 on it in UEFI mode. 
The disk has two primary partitions: a C: partition which contains my Windows 7 system and other installed software such as Office, and a D: partition which contains only personal data. 
(In other words, I don’t have a multi- or dual-boot system.)  
I now wish to reinstall 64-bit Windows 7 into the same C: partition, again in UEFI mode.
There is a procedure for reinstalling Windows 7 documented on the following MS Web page:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/installing-reinstalling-windows#1TC=windows-7
in the section entitled “Using the Custom installation option without formatting the hard disk”.
The following YouTube video demonstrates this procedure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr_s29MWOA0
and it looks relatively straightforward. 
Essentially, the re-installation starts by inserting the installation DVD into the optical disk drive and running setup.exe while still logged on to Windows 7 with an administrator user ID. 
At the screen entitled “Where do you want to install Windows?”, both the System Reserved partition (the example in the video is a legacy BIOS installation) and the C: primary partition are visible. 
On that screen, you simply select the C: primary partition and click
Next, and Windows 7 is effectively reinstalled over Windows 7. 
Any personal data in the C: partition is preserved in a folder called Windows.old.
The big question is, does this procedure work for a UEFI installation? 
The documentation does not state that it works only for a legacy BIOS installation. 
If I were to follow the procedure, when I reach the screen entitled “Where do you want to install Windows?”, I would expect to see the EFI System Partition (ESP), the Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR), my C: primary partition and my D: primary partition. 
Can I simply select the C: primary partition and click Next to start the (re-)installation?
It appears that nowhere in the procedure do you specify what mode of installation (legacy BIOS or UEFI) is required. 
Does the installation setup simply use the same mode as that of the existing installation?
Does anyone have any experience of reinstalling Windows 7 in UEFI mode, using this procedure or any other method?

Hi,
It depends. Do you have Windows 7 DVD? Does your computer have a Boot from EFI Drive option?
Windows 7 DVD can boot in either BIOS mode or UEFI mode. Different UEFI firmware implementations support different methods for handling the installation operation. The processes for booting the computer into UEFI mode for the Windows product DVD are
the same. If you can find a boot from EFI Drive option, please perform the suggestions as i referred to.
If you cannot find any boot option, perform the steps below:
Use Device Manager's Firmware option and select Boot from EFI Internal Shell.
Use the EFI internal shell, as follows:
Start the EFI internal shell from the EFI boot menu and select the drive with the Windows product DVD. The following example assumes that the drive is Fs0:
Shell> Fs0:
Start the EFI boot application. For example, on an x64 system, run the following command:
fs0:> \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
After the application starts, you may be immediately prompted to press a key to boot from the drive to continue. Press a key to continue booting from the installation media.
Andy Altmann
TechNet Community Support

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