Windows 10: Outdated BIOS to UEFI

Hi guys. So recently i was trying to figure out if how to boot into UEFI, but sadly there was no option for me to do that in the boot menu. Later on i googled some stuff and it told me to check system configuration to see if it says 'Legacy' which is Bios that you can convert to Uefi or it could just say Uefi. Mine says 'Outdated'. So i went to the BIOS website and found out that my BIOS version is 2014, whereas the latest one is 2019.

I downloaded 2019 one and it gave me an error 'Mount the EFI system partition failed', and i googled that too. Search results told me to convert MBR to GPT so i can install the latest bios, thus be able to use UEFI later on. The only problem is, i've paid for the program, i clicked on the 'Convert to GPT', and it says that the disc i'm about to convert is the boot disc so if my motherboard doesn't support UEFI, i'm in trouble (My laptop wont boot up anymore).



So since i can't check if my system supports UEFI or not, because google results say that if it does, your BIOS should say 'Legacy' next to it, but mine says 'Outdated' so i've no idea if my motherboard supports UEFI and everything will be gr8, or it'll just shut down my laptop forever.



If someone could please do me a favour and tell me if my laptop supports UEFI and i should start the convertion? Here's my laptop https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/5614?b=1



thanks in advance

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