I didn't bother to check the Intel update logs. There was an additional Bios issue with UEFI on my current BIOS version. check for Bios updates, before you start! I couldhave saved 36 hours! The other BIG mistake, I know I should have done this first. Legacy bios was throttling everything, I knew that but didnt realise how much. Probably the simplest option is to upgrade to Windows 10 as mbr and not have to change anything, like Bios etc It is what I should have done and saved 4 days, but after persevering, my system now flies! So much quicker boot and operation. Booting from Bios into legacy IDE - not Uefi or AHCI. I had this myself, system mbr, and gpt 8Tb Archive drive - no issues at all. Your mbr windows install system will recognize them. If your windows system is currently MBR - then you can happily use separate drives within your system BOTH mbr and gpt - but not the same hdd. I'm in the middle of a very long data recovery as we speak. Minitool says from v10 they will also have this option.īe warned though, I did convert a separate data drive from mbr to gpt, and Minitool site said explicitly it would not destroy data - foolishly (because after many hours trouble shooting the non booting system disk I was exhausted, I took a shortcut, believed the site and didn't backup the data (how many years have I been dong this for!).ġ click and I had a new unallocated gpt drive and no files. Easus 11 says it can, and I used this in the end. Minitool v9 wont convert the mbr disk to gpt if it is system bootable. There are lots of examples on the net of how to do this to a non system drive, but it is trickier with the system on it if you don't want to wipe the HDD completely and start from scratch (I didn't because I had other partitions on it I wanted to keep). If you DO want to switch to UEFI, the c:system drive needs to be converted from mbr to gpt, before you try to install from the Uefi/gpt usb. Windows USB would get to a point, write the files to the HDD but then would BSOD as it couldn't boot the drive, and go into an install loop. I originally had an mbr system, I created an mbr usb (without thinking about it), switched Bios over to Uefi and AHCI. Which type you choose to create the Windows install, will dictate what type of Windows system you get, regardless of how you set up the drive. Here is what I have learned.īe VERY careful with your UEFI usb drive - how did you create it? Rufus gives you an option to create a USB that is: I have just had 4 days of nightmare getting my media server back up and running after trying to do something VERY similar.
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