Changing BIOS from Legacy to UEFI/BIOS so I can use Win 11 on this PC

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  1. Posts : 203
    Win10 64 Home v 22H20
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       #101

    The back up plus exFAT is an external storage drive. I removed it now. Now shows only 2 FAT32

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  2. Posts : 13
    WIN 10
       #102

    OK
    diskpart
    sel vol 5
    assign letter=S
    exit
    bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device partition=S:
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  3. Posts : 203
    Win10 64 Home v 22H20
    Thread Starter
       #103

    Copied and pasted; missing a d again; second one I typed it in..still an error

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  4. Posts : 13
    WIN 10
       #104

    OK, don't worry!!!
    We have to do that from an USB-Boot-Stick.
    Meanwhile it's midnight here and I need my bed.

    So find the way to boot into an Command Prompt from USB.
    A Media Creation Tool (MCT) from Microsoft would be good.
    Meanwhile you learned how to use the diskpart command. That is all what we need.
    And it's really easy.
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  5. Posts : 203
    Win10 64 Home v 22H20
    Thread Starter
       #105

    Good night.
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  6. Posts : 118
    Windows 10 Pro
       #106

    You must have a selection of two times "Windows Boot Manager" in UEFI now. Choose the second so partition 2 gets out of use.
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  7. Posts : 13
    WIN 10
       #107

    What Volume Z means is this:

    diskpart
    sel disk 1
    sel par 2
    assign letter=K
    exit
    bcdedit /store K:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD /set {bootmgr} description "W-B-M"
    exit

    Shutdown and check during next startup if you find
    • W-B-M

    and
    • Windows Boot Manager

    somewhere in the BIOS Bootoptions. That is the place where you usually also find the USB-Boot-Option

    If you find it, select

    Windows Boot Manager

    The problem we have is that the BCD-Entry and REG-Entry are different.

    Only (!) when you found the 2 different entries from above you can continue

    And ONLY means ONLY !

    diskpart
    sel dis 1
    sel par 2
    delete partition override
    sel par 1
    extend
    shrink minimum=1025
    create partition primary
    format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery"
    set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"
    gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001
    exit

    Otherwise only USB makes sense.
    Depending on your USB, it might be necessary to disable Secure Boot first
    Last edited by Pentagon; 3 Weeks Ago at 04:14.
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  8. Posts : 6,524
    Windows 11 Pro - Windows 7 HP - Lubuntu
       #108

    More than 100 posts and isn't ready yet.

    Would have been much easier and faster:
    - Create a drive image of drive 1 on an external drive.
    - Set BIOS to UEFI mode.
    - For safety reasons, detach the power or SATA cable from drive 0 and then do a UEFI- GPT Win 10 Clean install on drive 1.
    - Boot from the drive image rescue USB drive and replace the new Win 10 partition on drive 1 with the one on the drive image created above.
    - Install Minitool partition and resize the recovery partition to 1G.

    Another quick solution:
    - Set the recovery environment on C: (reagentc /disable)
    - Create a drive image of drive 1 on an external drive.
    - Set BIOS to UEFI mode.
    - For safety reasons, detach the power or SATA cable from drive 0.
    - Boot from the Win 10 USB installation drive, launch diskpart, clean the SSD drive, convert it to GPT and create the 3 partitions:
    EFI (fat32 - 100M)
    MSR (RAW - 16M)
    C: (NTFS all remaining space)
    - Boot from the drive image rescue USB drive and replace the new C: partition on drive 1 with the one on the drive image created above.
    - Boot from the Win 10 USB installation drive, and install the boot manager on the EFI partition.
    - Boot into Windows, launch diskpart, shrink the C: partition in 1G and on the space created, create a Recovery partition.
    - Set the recovery environment on the Recovery partition (reagentc /enable)

    You should end with a partition layout like below
    Changing BIOS from Legacy to UEFI/BIOS so I can use Win 11 on this PC-default-win-10-part.png
    Last edited by Megahertz; 2 Weeks Ago at 13:10.
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  9. Posts : 203
    Win10 64 Home v 22H20
    Thread Starter
       #109

    1. I have not done anything with posts after my last post, saying "goodnight".
    2. When I turn off (shut down) the PC, it doesn't shut down, it immediately re-boots to the screen where I enter my password. Does not go through normal start up with motherboard info, etc.
    3. The only way I can turn off the PC is to hold the power button down.
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  10. Posts : 13
    WIN 10
       #110

    run just this command
    C:\Windows\System32>shutdown /s /t 0

    and this command should bring you straight into BIOS
    shutdown.exe /r /fw /t 0
    But not all machines support this command
    Last edited by Pentagon; 3 Weeks Ago at 10:45.
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