On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote:
On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 12:47 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
When my eyes saw 9 partitions, my old brain thought GPT and skipped:
When I bought the Dell Latitude E5470 it came with Windoze 10 on an MBR
disk — and without installation media and product codes. I shrank it
and installed Debian. Sorry for being so stupid that I didn't just blow
it away, but I need to use it about twice per year.
Let me know when you develop a method to convert a drive from MBR to
GPT without blowing away the partition table.
*I* do not have to -- Duck Duck Go is our friend. STFW "windows 10
convert mbr to gpt":
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=windows%2010%20convert%20mbr%20to%20gpt
The first hit is:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt
MBR2GPT | Microsoft Learn
Untested. YMMV. Caveat backup.
David
