*If any of you whom have already been able to Dual boot windows 10 and Linux, have you guys found a way to prevent this from happening after every Windows 10 update?Įdited by john1816, 25 February 2018 - 11:00 PM.
But basically from what I've read from other forums, its advised to install Windows first then Linux. Windows can replace the Linux Grub loader when booting the machine, preventing you to boot to the other OS. This is another issue that I will also have to deal with once I get to install Linux. Whenever it updates, it may screw up with the windows boot loader which is what loads windows 10 and is stored usually in the system reserve if you look at cmd>diskmgmt.
My laptop also has an option to boot via UEFI mode so I guess it can handle the problem is, Windows 10 has automatic updates that you cannot disable (i am not sure if disabling the update service in services.msc will stop the windows update service completely but what that does is that it stops the update service). I'll try downloading another iso file again and see if it helps. The Linux distro that I'm trying to install should work on EITHER BIOS or UEFI modes. However now that I think of it, I may have gotten an Iso file that can only work with UEFI rather than Legacy bios. Windows 10 still supports Legacy actually. I installed my windows 10 on my laptop via Legacy mode (BIOS) when I popped in my USB for it hence my drive became MBR. So how should I convert my MBR to GPT drive safely?Įdited by john1816, 24 February 2018 - 09:29 PM. The other option for me is to just format the drive as GPT and reinstall Windows 10.
However, I have also read some precautions like you should not convert your boot drive from MBR to GPT which is why I am not sure how to go about this way or do not convert your MBR to GPT drive if it has partitions (which I do).
There are some articles in the net saying you can convert MBR to GPT drives straight away without any data loss by running some commands on disk part or using a software to do it for you without any precautions listed. The Linux distribution apparently can only be installed in UEFI mode and there are some issues of trying to make UEFI work with MBR drives: Essentially if i could have both operating systems installed on the converted GPT drive, I would be able to dual boot either of them without any issues via UEFI mode setting. UEFI however, has to boot from a GPT drive for it to work which then leads me the need of converting my single MBR drive of my laptop to GPT. I have been trying to install the Linux distribution via BIOS mode to the MBR drive for a couple of hours but it does not work (made a bootable USB via rufus program, set it to FAT32 and yes, - I didn't just copy/paste the ISO file onto the USB ), it keeps booting back to Windows 10 after I clicked on "install" when I reached the screen to install the OS, which leads me to the conclusion that I could only install it via UEFI mode (unless I have done something wrong or I missed a step). I currently have a single MBR drive on my laptop on Windows 10 from where I am booting from (I only have 1 1TB drive on my laptop). I need to do this because I want to have both Windows 10 and a Linux Distribution to dual boot. I am looking for a way to convert my drive from MBR to GPT safely which will be my first time trying to do. The answer to the question, asked in the title, however, will remain the same: A GPT cannot be converted into an MBR.Hi all, this is the first time I'll be doing this so bare with me for my limited knowledge. In case my explanation should be partially unprecise or incorrect, I am sure that someone will chime in and correct me.
Such harddisks can be used only in combination with (U)EFI boot. Harddisks, which use GPTs, can have more than 4 primary partitions. + 1 extended partition: inside this extended partition, you can create logical partitions, quite a few of them.
You can work around this limitation by creating The system has to use Bios boot or be (U)EFI capable, but running in Legacy Boot mode (=Bios boot). Harddisks, which have got an MBR, can only have normal partition tables. You cannot convert a partition table, GPT or traditional PT, into an MBR. So it is not a partition table, but the boot record on a harddisk. GPT partitions can only exist on (U)EFI boot systems.