Thanks for the help, decided to reinstall to mbr. I followed instructions here

Convert GPT Disk to MBR Disk - Windows 7 Help Forums

to convert back without incident. Will be doing extensive...

Thanks will keep this in mind, am still hoping to have gpt. Not sure if it was just in my head but this pc seemed noticably snapier before powering off.

It passed check, and after converting command prompt looked like yours did on the first page of this thread.

BTW i edited my last post after you posted not seeing you had already posted.

Thanks for responding Brink. Looks as if this PC does not have uefi firmware settings only bios, came with windows 7 originally. Was finally able to figure how to boot from flash drive at a cold boot...

Wishing I hadnt tried this, now wont boot. Had a perfectly good running ASUS K60IJ, am hoping someone can help. I could not find the uefi option in the bios. Cant boot from windows 10 or linux flash...