Questions After Converting Boot Drive to GPT

[alpineweasel]

Hi,

 

This post is about converting my boot drive from MBR to GPT so that I could boot in UEFI mode.  After doing the conversion (with MBR2GPT.exe) I had trouble booting and I couldn't figure out how to fix it in Windows PE, I messed around in the BIOS and got my PC to boot but now it shows 'Windows Boot Manager' in the boot priority. Is this just a problem with how the partitions are arranged? Any help would be much appreciated, I really don't understand what I'm doing.

This shows the boot priority: Windows Boot Manager with the UEFI icon, followed by my HDD and disk drive (empty) without UEFI icon.

 

I can provide a screenshot of my partitions if necessary.

[Electronics Wizardy]

THe uefi entry is normal and expected when booting from a uefi drive.

[DanielNS84]

As posted above, this is normal. UEFI links the BIOS to the OS in a way that MBR does not which is why you can boot directly into UEFI from within Windows 10 as opposed to having to tap F2/Del/Whatever to get into it. Part of the information shared between them is what it's booting to, in this case it's the Windows Boot Manager.

[alpineweasel]

15 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

THe uefi entry is normal and expected when booting from a uefi drive.

Does everything look right? There's also a little blinking line at the top left of the screen when it boots.

 

My pc specs since i forgot to add them:

 

AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (3.50 GHz)

 

Asus M5A97 Motherboard

Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB (boot drive, windows 10 home 64 bit)

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, alpineweasel said:

Does everything look right? There's also a little blinking line at the top left of the screen when it boots.

 

My pc specs since i forgot to add them:

 

AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (3.50 GHz)

 

Asus M5A97 Motherboard

Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB (boot drive, windows 10 home 64 bit)

 

thats all seems good to me

[DanielNS84]

Generally that blinking cursor means it's attempting to boot, the fact that it does that for a bit on a HDD is not surprising...you'd definitely be better off grabbing a cheap 500GB SSD and cloning the drive over for booting as that will make the system worlds faster. I've seen them on sale for $50-60 and 1TB models for $100-150 for a decent one. I looked and your board doesn't support M.2 drives so SATA is the only option but still a lot better. 

[alpineweasel]

13 minutes ago, DanielNS84 said:

Generally that blinking cursor means it's attempting to boot, the fact that it does that for a bit on a HDD is not surprising...you'd definitely be better off grabbing a cheap 500GB SSD and cloning the drive over for booting as that will make the system worlds faster. I've seen them on sale for $50-60 and 1TB models for $100-150 for a decent one. I looked and your board doesn't support M.2 drives so SATA is the only option but still a lot better. 

I am definitely going to do this soon. Thank you.

[DanielNS84]

9 hours ago, alpineweasel said:

I am definitely going to do this soon. Thank you.

Yesssss, SSD master race! I can't get enough SSD goodness, I wish I could get rid of all my HDD's but the price for 8TB SSD's is still crazy lol.