Question How to access bios on startup if fast boot is on in gigabyte mbs?

[Dillusion]

i have a gigabyte z390 aorus ultra and i want to use the fast boot option so that i can quickly start up my desktop, but the thing is i wont br able to access the bios on startup this way and i m afraid that in cases of hardware failure or something it might cause problems so is there a way i can access the bios during startuo with fastboot on?

 

[boju]

Can boot to bios from Windows advanced recovery options if need.

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[Dillusion]

Can boot to bios from Windows advanced recovery options if need.

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Thanks but i have legacy bios

 

[SkyNetRising]

Gigabyte z390 aorus definitely has UEFI (not legacy bios).

 

[boju]

☝️

 

[Dillusion]

Gigabyte z390 aorus definitely has UEFI (not legacy bios).

https://imgur.com/a/hSWCz8A

View: https://imgur.com/a/hSWCz8A

 

[SkyNetRising]

That means, your windows is installed in legacy mode.
Gigabyte z390 aorus is still UEFI board (it supports legacy mode too).

Windows in legacy mode also means - fast boot is not supported.

 

[Dillusion]

That means, your windows is installed in legacy mode.
Gigabyte z390 aorus is still UEFI board (it supports legacy mode too).

Windows in legacy mode also means - fast boot is not supported.

Hmm i see is that why i was getting 0xc000000e
error on startup when I tried using fast boot? And any way to change legacy mode in my windows?I do have an ssd after all, so i presume it has to be supported

 

[boju]

No, need to reinstall windows.

Question, why was legacy enabled in the first place? Uefi on these boards is enabled by default, legacy would have been manually set.

 

[Dillusion]

No, need to reinstall windows.

Question, why was legacy enabled in the first place? Uefi on these boards is enabled by default, legacy would have been manually set.

Dunno, the ones who assembled it for me installed windows all together

 

[SkyNetRising]

And any way to change legacy mode in my windows?

That can be done with mbr2gpt utility.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt

 

[geofelt]

Fast boot is designed to load a previously created image of the last successful boot.
This is faster than loading the individual windows components separately.
If you want to access the bios, the easy way is to hold down the shift key while you hit the power down button.
Then, you should be able to hit DEL/f2 to enter the bios and do what you want.

As a side note, try using sleep to ram instead of shutdown.
The pc will enter a very low power state close to power off.
The benefit is only a few seconds to shut sleep or wake.

 

[Dillusion]

That can be done with mbr2gpt utility.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt

Thanks, although i must ask, are there any risks involved in it? should perhaps create a backup or something before using it?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Sure. Backup always is a good thing.

 

[Dillusion]

Sure. Backup always is a good thing.

Mbr2gpt file is not opening for me for some reason.. can i perhaps use this as an alternative? https://www.disk-partition.com/gpt-mbr/change-legacy-to-uefi-4348i.html

 

[SkyNetRising]

Mbr2gpt file is not opening for me for some reason..

What does that mean - "not opening"?
Did you read instructions, how to use it?
Do you get any error or something?

 

[Dillusion]

What does that mean - "not opening"?
Did you read instructions, how to use it?
Do you get any error or something?

okay i messed up something and i really need your help on what to do next.. i was unable the use the mbr2gpt so i opened command prompt to use it.. it was giving a few errors but lets set those aside for now cause i now have a bigger problem.. my pc is booting up to bios again and again and not windows 10, possible causes for this are..after validating mbr2gpt using cmd it couldnt find partition, so i followed someone's advice and set the only partition in the c drive from inactive to active and tried validating mbr2gpt.. it didn't work so i set it back to inactive just in case, i shutdown my pc after giving up, after shutdown i tried enabling fast boot again in the bios and starting it up, and that's where it started booting to bios again and again.. i tried disabling fast boot but that didn't work, i also noted in easy mode that 2(or 1) things-p0 and another thing(not sure) were missing from there and only my ssd containing the c drive was there.. altho the computer did detect the p0 sata thing(i think its the hdd). I took the photo of the bios here:

https://imgur.com/a/jrTG34X

View: https://imgur.com/gallery/jrTG34X

Help pls!

 

[SkyNetRising]

You have to set active previous partition, that was active before your alterations.

You can do that by booting from windows installation media and using diskpart.

 

[Dillusion]

You have to set active previous partition, that was active before your alterations.

You can do that by booting from windows installation media and using diskpart.

hmm i changed a few partitions on my hdd(not containing windows) to active and and c drive as active and then back to inactive so you want me to set my c drive partition back to active?

Also can you elaborate the last part? Should i create a flash drive with win 10 installation setup or a bootable flashdrive?

 

[SkyNetRising]

so you want me to set my c drive partition back to active?
Should i create a flash drive with win 10 installation setup or a bootable flashdrive?

No. You have to set active partition, that was active at the beginning (before you set C: to active).

Do you have any other way of set partition to active than booting from windows installation media? If yes, then do that.

 

[Dillusion]

No. You have to set active partition, that was active at the beginning (before you set C: to active).

Do you have any other way of set partition to active than booting from windows installation media? If yes, then do that.

This might sound like a noob question but can using normal startup repair can fix it too? Without any possible future errors?

 

[SkyNetRising]

can using normal startup repair can fix it too?

I wouldn't count on it.

 

[Dillusion]

I wouldn't count on it.

ok i ran cmd with a media tool well known for fixing these type errors and this is weird.. information windows shows the c drive in hdd as 549 mb occupied space and f and g drives as other 2 partitions.. my ssd is showing as d drive and the flash drive is showing as e drive! Also the boot partition is nowhere to be seen. here's a pic:

https://imgur.com/a/wGJ6MpL

View: https://imgur.com/gallery/wGJ6MpL

 

[SkyNetRising]

Set 549MB partition to active. That's bootloader partition.

 

[Dillusion]

Set 549MB partition to active. That's bootloader partition.

I did try doing that and on trying to apply those settings i m getting invalid configure file error and its automatically undoing itself.. also i ran a partition recovery on my ssd and.... :

https://imgur.com/a/GwG69e7

View: https://imgur.com/gallery/GwG69e7

And also there atleast a little good news that my ssd still has the files:

https://imgur.com/a/2AD7e6b

View: https://imgur.com/a/2AD7e6b