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Hi, I'm currently installing windows 10 on my pc. While installing I receive a message called " Windows can only install on GPT " I know how to convert, but I have another question regarding this issue. What I did is, I bring cmd while installing by pressing Shift + f10. ME on CMD : diskpart ME on CMD : list disk CMD to ME : showing list of disk (It shows only the hard drive not partition) ME on CMD : select disk 1 CMD to ME : disk 1 is selected ME on CMD : list partition CMD to ME : Showing list of partition ME on CMD : Select partition 1 (My partition contain files and I need to format only one partition) CMD to ME : Partiton 1 is selected My question is If I write clean, does format only the selected partition or entire hard drive ? I really don't want to format entire hard disk, because it contain my 300 gb project file that I done so for. So please help me out, I need an answer. I would really appreciated If I got a quick replay Thanks Warm regards Prasanth B
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Near as I can tell, the PC h tried hardware is working. I am trying to install Windows on a 500 GB Samsung EVO SSD. The first time I tried i had an error message that I thought I resolved by unplugging the mechanical HDD I had installed, leaving the SSD as the sole storage. Windows began installing. I looked away from the screen for a bit and looked back up and saw I was back at the install screen. I tried to start the installation again but got an error message at the screen where I have to select the drive to install Windows. The first time (without the HDD connected) the SSD had no partitions. But this time "Drive 0" had 2 partitions. Partition 1 System Reserved 579.0 MB and Partition 2 465.2 GB. But "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. the selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks. Near as I can tell the Windows installer must have been the one to partition the disk. But my question is how do I reformat the drive as a GPT disk without having an OS installed? Is there a way to get the Bios to format the drive? Thanks.
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Hi All I have two 8TB Hard drives that arnt showing up in Windows 10, looked in Disk Management and it saying needs to be in MBR not GPT and that i need to reformat the drive. Does anyone know a way to get the drive to work Windows reformatting the drive its a back-up of my server and im in the process of expanding my server and its the only copy of the data i have not on my server at the moment and dont want to risk it. So if anyone knows how i can access the drives in Windows 10 that would be great, Thanks
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Installing F4 from F3 worked fine, but after installing BIOS F5a on a Gigabyte Aorus Master sTRX40, my Windows installation would not boot. I thought the BIOS wasn't seeing the drive etc etc so I booted from a disc and did startup repair and then it went straight in! I noticed that I no longer have a UEFI partition, or a system reserved partition. Instead I have a random 128MB partition as the F: drive letter on my SSD and a 261MB unallocated partition. My secondary HDD also has a random 185MB unallocated partition. Running system information showed the BIOS mode is Legacy! I have no idea how this has happened! I have never ever converted from UEFI to Legacy! Also in disk management if I right click the SSD, it says "convert to GPT" as greyed out implying it has also been converted to MBR in the process. Please can somebody explain how I can convert it back to UEFI, convert it back to GPT, and get the necessary partitions back so I can boot up and undo what Windows has done? Thank you in advance!
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I have B450 asus tuf pro mobo and p660 m.2 from intel on the old computer i made bootable usb with 2nd gen ISO image and format it with GPT - UEFI non-CSM I cant boot from that and i dont know why... im trying now with MBR format UEFI-CSM i thought since everything's new it will work just fine Legacy MBR partition on new PC??
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So, this is a little of a long story. 5 months ago I decided to buy a new SSD, a Kingston A400 240GB SATA3 2.5"/7mm SSD, for my notebook, an HP pavillion Sleekbook 15-105la. Everything went well with the instalation, except the fact that if I turn off the legacy boost mode, uefi doesn't work. Since then, I haven't been able to get any windows update installed correctly and the windows shop also doesn't work. Right now the ssd is installed as a mbr and I suppose I need to change it to gpt, so I tried to make a uefi usb-stick through rufus, with the help of this post https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-windows-10-usb-bootable-media-uefi-support#uefi_media_rufus and a windows iso from microsoft media creation tool, into my 32gb storage Sd. The problem is, whenever I try to boost the pc through the usb, I get the message checking media [Fail]. I've made sure to deactivate secure boost and to press F9 to boost the installation through the usb. I tried to boost the pc through my old hard drive by connecting it through usb, but it instantly sends me to system diagnostic and tries to repair itself. Now, I want to abstain myself from opening my notebook and reinstalling the old hard drive, also, I don't care about the data in my ssd, if needed I will format it. Thanks for the help!
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So for the past few days I have been trying to transfer my OS from a 1Tb HDD to a 240Gb SATA SSD that I've had for a little while. I cleared everything off of it and tried using the EaseUS software to copy my OS over. Two issues have come up so far: 1) the HDD is in MBR formatting and the SSD is in GPT, and 2) when I try to convert the SSD to MBR, no option will show up to allow me to do so. So, some questions I have are do I need to convert my HDD to GPT? Can an SSD be converted to MBR? Any other helpful suggestions?
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Dear TechJunks, Is this a lost cause, or is there a bit of light at the end of the tunnel? USB powered HDD showing 2 Unallocated partitions (MBR), and 1 visible (2mb FAT) EFI partition. Cannot get to the data this way. Trying to save the data for the father of a colleague. The problem started when my colleague connected the disk to his MacBook. 2,5" 250GB Seagate Momentus 5400.4, running in a Medion single usb 2.0 powerd casing. (Running the drive internally yields the same result) Testing on a Win10Edu64Bit, Tried Win7 and a other offline Win10 system. Here is a screenshot i took with Minitool (same as in DiskManagement) I have added the errorlog with the bootx64.efi and grubx64.efi left in the FAT partition as a attachment to this post. Is there away to restore the beloved pictures, of this old man? bootx64.efi grubx64.efi Seagate Errors.evtx -
I was setting up my new workstation pc, MoBo: Gigabyte x470 aorus gaming 7 wifi Processor: Ryzen 7 2700x Ram: XPG 16 GB Graphics Card: AMD Firepro W7000 HDD: Toshiba 3TB SSD: Samsung 970 evo 250GB I want to install windows in my SSD and use 3 TB HDD as my secondary drive. But while installation, i couldn't complete partition without 730 GB unallocated. According t some threads in the internet, I used a software to convert drive from MBR to GTP that allowed me to use that 730 GB but it deleted the system reserved 500 MB partition. So when I restart windows wouldn't load. Is there any way to Install windows on my SSD and have 3TB as secondary drive? Thanks in advance.
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Hey guys, I get an error Message when I want to install Windows on my SSD. It says like my SSD has a MBR partition and on EFI systems Windows can only be installed on GOT partitions. I'm in "LEGACY+UEFI" mode right now. Can you tell me what to do now? Thank you in advance!!
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Hi there, I'm really a noob and after a research on other website, I don't think I understood much. I bought a prebuilt with only a HDD. When I transfered the system to another case and Mobo, I bought an SSD and installed Windows on the new Drive. Now, I just bought a pcie SSD to entirely replace the HDD. My problem is that I can't boot straight to the first SSD. I need to boot on the HDD (even though windows is installed on SSD). From my research, my problem seams to be with the Master Boot Record (MBR), which seems to be on the HDD. I'm at work RN, but I was thinking about formating all my drives, unplugging the HDD and then reinstall Windows. - Will this work? - Is there a better, easier way to deal with this? Thanks a lot!
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Hi All, I recently purchased new SSD and normal HDD. I'm facing issues while installing windows 10. I got my usb drive loaded with windows 10 from rufus (GPT type). In the bios setting, I set the boot mode as legacy+UEFI and chose usb stick to install windows. But it threw an error saying I need to boot using UEFI mode. So I changed the setting to UEFI in the boot setting and tried to boot from pendrive. But it's not working. The screen just freezes and nothing happens. Also I don't find option to disable secure boot in the bios setting. Motherboard: MSI 970 Gaming motherboard. Is there any option available to boot using UEFI mode or I should recreate usb again with MBR type ?
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I just bought a new Motherboard, CPU and RAM and my windows install partition is MBR because I upgraded from windows 7 a while back. I was wondering if there would be any benefit to doing a clean install of Windows on my system so that it would be on a GPT partition, or is there any down side to keeping it on an MBR partition? Thanks in advance :D
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I killed my UEFI Motherboard (BAD BIOS update) and I need assistance moving to an older Motherboard that supports only MBR. I had I configured to dual boot with Windows 10 and POP OS (Both were UEFI) and was using rEFInd as the boot-loader I backed up all data using a Linux USB, It would be amazing if you could point me to a tool that converts all the GPT to MBR on the Linux USB. (Please do let me know if there's an easier method) I'm trying to avoid a complete reinstall if possible, any advice is appreciated, Thanks in advance ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extra Information if it helps: I killed my Mobo by using a USB 3.0 port to update my BIOS (Will get it fixed after the pandemic) Dead Mobo : MSI 970 Gaming Backup Mobo : MSI 760GM P21
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Act 1: The long explanation. I installed a ransomware virus on my main Windows partition. I lost everything. Hundreds of Gigabytes of information encrypted beyond recognition and repair and it was all my fault. It was karma for an elevated praise to the Windows operating system and its unparalleled compatibility. In that text, I present myself as an experienced Windows, OSX and Linux user by skillfully editing out the bits that reveal my true self: an old loser who would infect his own computer. Disclosure: I do not, I repeat, I do not live in my mother’s basement. I, of course, use the “I lost everything” statement rather lightly since -as most users of this forum- I backup frequently, dance awkwardly and repel females with phrases such as: “I love Star Wars” or “I backup frequently”. Act 2: The questions Here is my current predicament (see image): Will i lose my Fedora boot if I install windows in a new sda2? I will delete the infected partition, create it again, format it with NTFS and install windows 7. Will that erase references to my current boot partition? I know an installation disk or a Windows 7 recovery disk can fix a broken Windows boot record. How do you fix the MBR for a Fedora 28 boot in case it’s overwritten? Act 3: Your turn
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I am more just trying to understand WHY it's working when every forum and says it should not. I have a UEFI BIOS and updated to latest version. Board is an Asus E3 Pro-Gaming v5. NVMe is a 480gb Corsair MP300 and my M.2 slot caps at pcie x2. I have checked in crystaldisk. I get 1500gbps Read and 1050 Write. Far faster than my old Samsung SSD. So here it is. I installed drive, formatted it to GPT, installed W10. It crashed on boot saying error 0xc000000f. Master Boot Record. The BIOS was done as I was told to. Brand new NVMe, I power down and BOOM....I load to W10. I restart....0xc000000f. I shut down, mind you at this point and during install only the NVMe was plugged in. I restart....boom W10. I restart...error. and on it goes. So often so I called Microsoft. They remote in and see my disk has 4 partitions. System, Primary, etc. And Recovery. They said I should not see recovery on their. This was Level 2, not call centers that script read. Microsoft said my boot drive NEEDS to be MBR not GPT even for NVMe. At this point format to MBR to use for now as storage, but I decide to clone my SSD which is MBR.....I clone that. BOOM! W10 works, no more errors, even did the "refresh windows". Works perfect. Why??? My UEFI was reset to default. And apparently MBR works and I still get my advertised NVMe speeds. All i read is GPT not MBR and MBR will not work. But it does. Then i read and i hear GPT is for drives over 2TB...which NVMes are not at yet. I want to understand and even just hear that...yes. MBR is absolutely a valid format for NVMe. W10 did not want to install properly with GPT. I made 2 install USBs, one with an .iso and one with Windows Media Creation. Both same results. Thanks
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Okay I tried taking an SSD out of one laptop and put it I into a new laptop and run it. SSD was the boot drive in the old laptop and everything worked. I put it into the new machine and I can’t boot. If I make my windows partition active it says bootmgr is missing. If I make my system reserved partition active, it says boot\bcd is not found. I have tried every single possible combination of things that I found on the internet. Bcdedit, bcdboot, fixboot, fixboot, fixmbr, rebuildbcd, and I’m getting nowhere. If you can quote the solution off of some webpage, I’ve probably already tried it. I need help with this ASAP please. Does anyone know what the bcdstore is and where it supposed to be? It doesn’t even boot in the old laptop anymore. And then I’d like to know the reason why I can’t just swap SSDs and expect it to work and what’s the best way of doing that.
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So for the last couple of weeks I've been unable to update Windows to build 1709 as my main drive is on MBR and there isn't an easy way to convert it to GPT without reinstalling windows (to my knowledge), so I've been putting off the major updates. But with these recent developments about Specter and Meltdown, should I need to worry about reinstalling to get those updates or will they still roll down to older builds of Win10 (1703 for instance)?
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So I am trying to transfer the data from my old 1tb WD Blue to my new 4tb Seagate Barracuda (keep in mind, not OS disk). I usually use Minitool partition wizard free edition but the free version only supports MBR but in order to get one 3.7 tb volume I need GPT format type, I would normally just go into windows explorer and ctrl-C and ctrl-V to transfer the files but I am getting some abysmal speeds considering they are connected via SATA Directly to another computers MoBo (10-30 MB/s). Does anybody have a recommendation for some software that would work for this?
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So I am trying to transfer the data from my old 1tb WD Blue to my new 4tb Seagate Barracuda (keep in mind, not OS disk). I usually use Minitool partition wizard free edition but the free version only supports MBR but in order to get one 3.7 tb volume I need GPT format type, I would normally just go into windows explorer and ctrl-C and ctrl-V to transfer the files but I am getting some abysmal speeds considering they are connected via SATA Directly to another computers MoBo (10-30 MB/s). Does anybody have a recommendation for some software that would work for this?
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well i put an SSD in my laptop to replace the slow physical it had before to cut a long story short , the win10 install failed , froze up and i had to shutdown the laptop , after that i checked the disk in Gparted and its all there but i cannot give it a new MBR , all i get is an R/W error what now? its an Intenso 120gb Sata III drive
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Hey folks over there, here's the quick query: I am getting my new Toshiba SATA 6Gbps 240GB 2.5" SSD tonight and I will install Windows 10 Pro x64 on that. I want to use GPT-UEFI and NOT MBR anymore. And I don't wanna use BIOS too. Help me regarding this. I don't wanna screw something up so expert advice is what I need. Walk me through the points you would want to let me know.
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Hi guys, back again for some more info, as you seem to be the most knowledgeable forum on the webs! So I have an old netbook with an atom n270 (I think). Either way it's a 32-bit chip with legacy bios only. Got 3 OS's on it (2 Linux and windows 10 for if I need it) but I had to use an extended partition for the 3rd. Was doing some research into MBR and GPT. So my question is, do you reckon I could boot using GPT (I know windows wouldn't boot from it, but I'm getting a decent laptop soon so that doesn't matter to me) on a 32-bit legacy system, I know 32-bit isn't an issue but does GPT require a UEFI system? The only info I can find is for 32-bit UEFI systems so am a bit stuck. TIA!
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I've been stumped on this for a while, and I've found solutions on other forums but none have worked for me. I had a Windows 10 error after it had been installed for a while and so I thought I would just format the drive and reinstall. Nothing I haven't done before, but this time, whenever I try to install Windows, it will go to the menu to select a drive and then it says that the drive is of GPT format and "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computers BIOS menu". This is a computer that I custom built and like I said, I've formated drives and everything all the time and this is the first time something like this has happened. I can change the format easily enough and I think the other error it gives me is the problem. Specs: AsRock 970m Pro III AMD FX8350 Transcend 256GB SSD 370 (TS256GSSD370S) (I've also tried using this drive, but the same thing) Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD
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Argh..... So my desktop pc has been running off a 1tb hard drive until today, when I finally put an ssd in there. The SSD I'm using is the SanDisk SSD Plus 240gb model. So I go on my merry way installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 on there and it turns out that my SSD is formatted with MBR. Ok. No problem. I go use diskpart to try to change it to GPT. Boom. Get an error. I install an application called AOMEI Partition Assistant. Boom. Another error. When I try to convert the disk to GPT through the application it tells me there's not enough disk space when converting to GPT. Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it? I just want to use my stupid SSD already
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