Windows 10: How to make Media Creation tool to design Windows 10 for GPT, not for MBR?

Discus and support How to make Media Creation tool to design Windows 10 for GPT, not for MBR? in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Hi. My HP laptop won't boot properly, if BIOS and Legacy support are disabled, and only UEFI and Secure Boot are left enabled.I believe the problem is... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by Val So, Jul 24, 2022.

  1. Val So Win User

    How to make Media Creation tool to design Windows 10 for GPT, not for MBR?


    Hi. My HP laptop won't boot properly, if BIOS and Legacy support are disabled, and only UEFI and Secure Boot are left enabled.I believe the problem is coming because Media Creation tool doesn't install GPT compatibility into the Windows 10 OS and/or the installation media doesn't turn the laptop's HDD partition into GPT.How do I make Windows 10 to be compatible with GPT, so I can turn off the Legacy support and BIOS, and leave only UEFI and Secure Boot enabled, and to have no problems with booting the OS?If I use Rufus to make a bootable USB drive, and select the GPT option, will it work?

    :)
     
    Val So, Jul 24, 2022
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  2. creating ISO Rufus vs media creation UEFI/GPT/MBR

    The media creation tool has very few options so I'm not positive how to force it into UEFI mode and automatically make a fresh install use UEFI/GPT. The Rufus tool has multiple options - the default one states it'll work for both BIOS/legacy/UEFI but it
    isn't recognized if the motherboard's setting is to use UEFI as primary boot option. There are 2 other options however, if you pick UEFI only install to MBR it will do just that, or the third option is UEFI only and install to GPT.

    None of these options are given by the media creation tool - how do I know what boot option it is using and whether it will use GPT or MBR partition schemes? Or can I even force it to do one or the other during the install process? If I delete all the
    partitions on a SSD and just click on install to unallocated space it does everything for me but never asks do I want GPT or MBR if I remember correctly.

    I have multiple 7 to 10 year old kids messing around with my/their many computers a lot so they know just enough to click on the wrong things and getting a bunch of malware is much harder to remove than to just clean install. If I am using all modern hardware
    that supports GPT/UEFI is my best option to use Rufus rather than the media creation tool so I know exactly how it is reinstalled each time? If I don't need legacy/BIOS/MBR support and want it to just do a fresh install every time using UEFI/GPT - the media
    creation tool does not let me do this correct?

    I know MS can't really endorse using a 3rd party product but I'm just looking for the fastest way possible to pop in a USB install drive and walk away and grab a bite to eat and come back to a clean install each time one of the kids screws up one of our
    5-10 computers. And preferably since there's really no advantage to the old partition schemes, I'd rather the install drive always just force UEFI and GPT without even interfacing with me if possible and I'm not advanced enough anymore to custom script the
    install process to do all this for me which I *think Rufus does.
     
    lawrence131, Jul 24, 2022
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  3. DaveM121 Win User
    Downloading Win 10 & creating an USB bootable Win 10 MBR flash drive using Media Creation Tool .

    The flash drive will not be MBR or GPT - that will be your hard drive

    UEFI requires your hard drive to be GPT and Legacy BIOS normally requires your hard drive to be MBR

    The Media Creation tool will format the Flash Drive correctly for you before creating the Installation Media . . .
     
    DaveM121, Jul 24, 2022
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  4. Alex Ice Win User

    How to make Media Creation tool to design Windows 10 for GPT, not for MBR?

    Downloading Win 10 & creating an USB bootable Win 10 MBR flash drive using Media Creation Tool .

    Respect you all! Last night i wanted to download an ISO with Windows 10 Aniversary Update on my computer but i don't know how. Please, can you tell me step by step how? I want to download from official site. Another thing i want to know is how can i make
    a bootable Win 10 flash drive using Media Creation Tool on MBR and not GPT. Please, let me know how! Thank you!
     
    Alex Ice, Jul 24, 2022
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