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Re: UEFI grub install fails



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


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