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‎07-11-2022 07:36 AM

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 I tried booting in legacy but it will not let me. At first I thought my hard drive was fried. Does this just mean I need to get a new windows to download? 

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‎07-11-2022 07:43 AM

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Hi:

 

If Windows is installed in EFI mode, you can't change the BIOS mode to Legacy because it uses a different hard drive partition table (MBR), and the GPT-formatted drive can't boot.

 

Run the F2 hard drive diagnostics test and see what it reports.

 

If the drive passes, then you can reinstall Windows, but I would select the EFI USB flash drive to boot from, not the Legacy one.

 

Your notebook was designed to run in EFI mode with Secure Boot enabled.

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‎07-13-2022 12:05 PM

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 the first time I ran it passed the smart check but now it keeps saying thi

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‎07-13-2022 12:19 PM

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If you set the BIOS back to the way it originally was (legacy mode disabled) and you are getting that error, you may have to install a new hard drive and reinstall the operating system.

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