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smccarrick
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Jul 12, 2019
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Virtualization - Legacy Bios and UEFI issue

Hi everyone,    My issue is I want to convert from legacy BIOS to UEFI so that I can enable virtualization to run virtual machines. I've done some research and my processor & motherboard both suppo...
  • HotCakeX's avatar
    Aug 12, 2019
    The reason why your computer couldn't boot up after converting your Hard Disk to GPT is because your motherboard was still using the old BIOS, so it couldn't boot from GPT.
    so first you need to get a Motherboard that has UEFI already on it. any decent motherboard from the last 5 years already has UEFI preinstalled.

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