MBR to GPT

My friend gave me his older desktop pc , which is a better one than mine (dell xps 8940) ...i tried to reinstall Windows 10 on to my used sata ssd drive that had Windows on it but I got this error: " Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI...

I enabled Windows UEFI mode in the bios for OS type. But the Secure Boot State is greyed out and says setup. I haven’t done mbr2GPT yet what do I do? Thanks!

I have Windows 10 and want to upgrade to 11. I need to make my disks from MBR to GPT to enable TPM in the BIOS. How do I convert my disks to GPT?

After transitioning from MBR to GPT, whether through the OS command prompt, the repair command prompt, or the Windows MediaCreationTool command prompt, my SSD fails to start up properly. Instead, it presents a black screen with a typing cursor (not a mouse cursor) at the top left corner after...

Im going to update from Win 10 to Win 11, but have a problem. My OS drive (M.2 SSD) is Disk 4 on the list instead of Disk 0 and the OS disk is in MBR, I have followed this guide: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-move-bios-uefi-windows-10 But it doesn't work, I also went...

Hey can someone help me out with this, i have a aorus z390 motherboard with the aorus gigabyte bios, i have 2 disks, disk 0 and disk 1, when i installed windows, it installed the mbr on disk 0 and windows on disk 1, i then used a software (i think it was bcd) to move the bootable system files...

Hello, I was manually changing from mbr to get and I couldn't find any partitions on disk 0 and I followed several solutions from various websites, but non of them work and now I'm stuck on what to do next. Any help would be appreciated.

I want to convert my windows installation from MBR to GPT using Microsoft's MBR2GPT tool. However I have one more drive in my system that contains games and other files. Should I disconnect that drive before I begin the conversion?

Hey everyone, just got a new system built and having a terrible time getting Windows 11 installed on the computer. I have 2 empty M.2 hard drives I am trying to freshly install windows onto. This is a Gigabyte Z790 Gaming X AX mobo with a Intel 13900kf CPU. First time starting up the computer...

Hi All, I'm looking to set up a dual boot between Windows 10 and Fedora, but my SSD is set to MBR. From all the videos I have seen, when creating the bootable USB using Rufus, they all set it to GPT. In my situation I'm guessing, I would have to set it as MBR. Will doing this cause any issues...

I'm planning to upgrade the system drive in my desktop PC to a 4TB SSD. Only problem is my current drive is partitioned using MBR. I know I'll have to convert to GPT to utilize the full size of the 4TB drive and I've checked to unsure that my motherboard supports UEFI. So my question is about...

Hello so i have already converted my drive from MBR to GPT but i am making sure it is fully set so that when i go from 10 to 11 its works right. So when i did so i was puzzled cuz it shows in my disk manager that there is only 3 partitions and my pc booted cuz i checked to make sure it was...

Hello! I am new here. I have a problem with the convert. Windows component not worked so I useded aomei partition assistant but when I try to convert I get this message: I have 2 disks so I need to convert both disk now or what?

PC Desktop is Lenovo M92 , windows 10 64 bit , i3-3rd gen. I have one HDD 2Tb for my windows, and everything else with 2 partition , C drive and D drive. both with its own things. Then i have system reserved 50mb and recovery partition for 500mb. The issue is i cant delete or format all my...

I want to upgrade to win11 for which I need to convert my SSD from mbr to gpt to enable secure boot but I'm not sure if my pc would boot normally after that as my pc boots both into uefi and legacy from bios. Mobo: gigabyte b360m ds3h. Should I convert the drive from mbr to gpt? Please help

I have this old HP laptop that i want to use again so i bought a ssd and installed windows on it problem is, the laptop doesn’t recognize when its a GPT. I’ve tried to format it as MBR and install windows 10 again but it converts it back to GPT. Can you please guide me what steps i need to take...

So I bought Sapphire R9 280x Tri-x. So when I tried switching first time the GPU didn't post. I had Windows 10 installed with MBR and I read that it can cause problems when switching GPUs. So I reinstalled Win 10 to GPT. Right after reinstall I switched the GPUs and the R9 280x posted and I log...

I want to move 100GB from E:\ to C:\ but Minitool gives an error for every action I perform with these drives. I even tried to change E:\ to Logical drive but errors and nothing else. What's wrong with my drives and how can I fix it? Here is the screenshot.

Hello, W7 refuses to install because none of my drives are GPT. I want to install W7 onto my blank SSD. I did some googling but want to make sure I implement the right method based on my circumstance. I have four drives: Main::W8.1 (1TB SSD) Partition with Ubuntu (80GB P., total 2tb)...

Looking for a bit of help with a SSD I have physically moved from a Lenovo ThinkServer over to a Lenovo Legion T530 PC. It will not boot. Below is an outline of the issue. The drive boots fine in the ThinkServer The BIOS in the Legion T530 DOES see the SSD I have moved over I have tried to boot...

Hello. I was recently trying to update my bios on a Lenovo laptop. It didn't update coz the bios mode needs to be in UEFI. So i have to go through MBR 2 GPT so that i could switch to UEFI. My first attempt failed coz i had 4 mbr partitions on my only one installed hard disk. So i deleted the...

I just want to move from an old MBR drive to one of two new drives. I'd like for the new drives to use GPT, partially just in case I want to upgrade again later, even though the new drives are not larger than 2TB. Old drive is a 1TB that was originally in an HP desktop I bought in 2010, and...

My laptops keyboard just stoped working. When i left, the computer was in sleep mode and when i csme back it was off. When i tried to log back in, the keyboard wasnt working.

So not too long ago I had upgraded my system but instead of upgrading the graphics card I decided to upgrade the CPU which involved getting a new Motherboard, CPU, Ram, etc. I had originally posted on here about my games crashing which I will link the post below but it seemed like I had fixed...

Hi guys! I'm planning to build a pc and I would love your guys opinion on it. I want it to play all 2014 games on ultra or the highest settings, I don't want to upgrade it very soon! Setup: i5-4670k MSI Z87-GD65 8gb ram GTX 780Ti Seagate Barracuda 2tb 600W Hyper 212 evo cooler Corsair...