[SOLVED] Legacy to uefi

[nikgenious]

Hey, I have the motherboard ASRock fatality b450 gaming, is on legacy bios and I need to get it run on UEFI bios so I can run windows 11 when they come out, can you pls help me?

 

[Colif]

Your board is a UEFI now, all boards made in the last 10 years are likely to be UEFI

What it might mean is it wants you on UEFI boot method instead of legacy.
Do you know if you use MBR or GPT boot drives now?

 

[Colif]

UEFI = Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.
it is the bios, if you run it in legacy mode it emulates the old bios, but it is actually UEFI.

UEFI was created by Intel and motherboard makers to fix the limitations of the old bios
If your bios knows what a mouse is, its UEFI

 

[Colif]

Are you on win 10?

this shows the steps to convert MBR to GPT and then you need to swap the BIOS to UEFI boot method or windows won't boot

How to switch from Legacy to UEFI boot mode (MBR2GPT conversion)

In the context of my work as a system administrator from time to time I have to deal with desktop / client issues in addition to infrastructure and server problems. So I recently had to cope with 2 problems that had the same cause. Case 1:On one workstation, Bitlocker had

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[nikgenious]

Are you on win 10?

this shows the steps to convert MBR to GPT and then you need to swap the BIOS to UEFI boot method or windows won't boot

How to switch from Legacy to UEFI boot mode (MBR2GPT conversion)

In the context of my work as a system administrator from time to time I have to deal with desktop / client issues in addition to infrastructure and server problems. So I recently had to cope with 2 problems that had the same cause. Case 1:On one workstation, Bitlocker had

it-infrastructure.solutions

Yeah I'm using win 10 rn

 

[Colif]

can you right click start
choose disk management
open the next window so it shows all the details in upper and lower areas
take a screenshot and upload to an image sharing website, and show link here.

I want to see what drives look like