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Convert drive partition back to MBR after GPT conversion

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I recently had to replace a hard drive on my old Dell XPS 8100 that was running Win 10. A few years ago I replaced the OS (C:) drive with a 3tb Western Digital but the system would only recognize 2tb because of the MBR partition. I figured now would be a good time to also look at that issue and I'm wishing I had just left it alone. I did the conversion to GPT just to find out that the old bios in the pc is legacy only (no UEFI support) so it can't boot the drive anymore - I know . . . stupid!! I put an old drive in it that has Win7 on it and I can see drive 0. All my data is there and I c

 

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