I want to change booting and installing Win10 from MBR to GPT. I install Win10 always "UNATTENDED" and before installation I format the disk onto Win10 will be installed to NTFS-filesystem. Or do I have to change to FAT32, or are both filesystems allowed? And all the other additional installed disks, have they to be converted to GPT too, if they are not bootable? If I re-format this bootable GPT-disk, will this one stay a GPT-disk? Then I have to change in BIOS the Option "CSM-Support" ==> DISABLED A step by step would be very helpful. Thank you for helping
When you now are running a MBR partitioned system and want to switch at reinstall to GPT (UEFI), you only need to delete all existing partitions from the system drive (and have no other drive connected) and repartition it when booted from UEFI capable boot media (DVD or FAT32 formatted USB drive (or use a third party usb creator, like Rufus)) and it will install in GPT. You can have CSM enabled or disabled, when the bootmedia with the UEFI suffix is selected during boot, it should install UEFI/GPT. You also can convert the existing MBR partitions to GPT, using diskpart and the needed commands. I never use unattended xml's, can't help with that.
about converting a MBR disk to GPT a friends computer could not upgrade any more because of the disk being MBR had to convert it to GPT for the upgrade to take place. I had to clean the disk in diskpart for the conversion to take place after that I had put back a backup and voila it worked. Stupid enough after reading on the net you should convert MBR to GPT with keeping the files but all I got where errors in diskpart untill I used clean that figures Just a note on the subject