HELP! How to revert drive back to Legacy from UEFI mode
I have an old Asus K53E laptop with a Samsung SSD on Windows 10 and thought I could convert the drive from Legacy Mode to UEFI mode following this video clip:
After running the mbr2gpt utility, I went into the BIOS and changed the setting from Legacy to UEFI mode. I restarted the PC and now I just get a black screen with a cursor flashing on the top left of the screen. I tried flipping back to Legacy and reboot and the same thing. The drive no longer loads windows.
Can someone please suggest how to change the drive BACK to Legacy? I think what I need to do is the following:
- remove SSD drive from laptop
- put the drive in some SATA to USB dock
- go to another computer and hook up this drive to it
- run some utility to convert the drive back to Legacy mode
- take the drive out of the dock and put it back in the laptop
- verify that boot settings in the laptop bios is in legacy mode
- try booting off the SSD and pray that is works
Can someone please suggest a utility that will let me convert a drive back to Legacy mode? Would this utility work or is there others that are better? https://www.disk-partition.com/gpt-mbr/ ... 4348i.html
I really don't want to have to format/reinstall everything all over again.
Thanks
Update: I purchased the pro version of https://www.disk-partition.com/partitio ... v_products and converted the drive back to MBR mode and I still have the same issue of not booting (black screen with a cursor flashing in the top left corner).
After running the mbr2gpt utility, I went into the BIOS and changed the setting from Legacy to UEFI mode. I restarted the PC and now I just get a black screen with a cursor flashing on the top left of the screen. I tried flipping back to Legacy and reboot and the same thing. The drive no longer loads windows.
Can someone please suggest how to change the drive BACK to Legacy? I think what I need to do is the following:
- remove SSD drive from laptop
- put the drive in some SATA to USB dock
- go to another computer and hook up this drive to it
- run some utility to convert the drive back to Legacy mode
- take the drive out of the dock and put it back in the laptop
- verify that boot settings in the laptop bios is in legacy mode
- try booting off the SSD and pray that is works
Can someone please suggest a utility that will let me convert a drive back to Legacy mode? Would this utility work or is there others that are better? https://www.disk-partition.com/gpt-mbr/ ... 4348i.html
I really don't want to have to format/reinstall everything all over again.
Thanks
Update: I purchased the pro version of https://www.disk-partition.com/partitio ... v_products and converted the drive back to MBR mode and I still have the same issue of not booting (black screen with a cursor flashing in the top left corner).