![]() ![]() I strongly recommend you research all of these options before proceeding. Three possibilities occur to me, although one violates the details of what you're asking to do but not the spirit, and I can make no promises that any of these approaches would work. Select custom, delete the existing FreeDos partition, and install Windows on the blank space. Start machine - boots from disk-on-key into Windows installation.Note that I tried to set boot to UEFI-only, but then it wouldn't recognize the disk-on-key.Now disk-on-key is selectable - set it as first boot device. Enter machine BIOS ( Fn+ F2), set boot to legacy support (may have been the default, don't remember), restart and enter BIOS again. ![]() ![]() Download a Windows 10 64-bit ISO, and create a USB disk-on-key using Windows USB/DVD Download Tool.Question: Is there a way to update the BIOS without re-formatting the drive to GPT? Installation procedure However, this means that I need to delete the entire partition, which I don't want to. This thread suggests it's because I partitioned the drive with MBR, and says that he managed to update the BIOS after re-installing windows using an installation Disk-on-Key creating with stick using Rufus with GPT-type UEFI. I then wanted to update its BIOS/UEFI from the factory 2.00 to 2.02 from the above link, but this failed with: I clean-installed Windows 10 v1703 on it (installation details below). I just bought a new Lenovo IdeaPad 510S-14IKB 80UV without OS. ![]()
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