Computer laptop 15-f162dx: Conversion of MBR & Defragging: strange question!

First of all, I'm great running old operating systems I bought 1 million old installation Windows CD off Amazon.com, lol. Today, my mission: install Windows 95. So, first of all, I had to install MS-DOS. But, I came across an error during my quest! I needed my hard drive MBR rather than GPT. After hours of research, I converted successfully GPT on the MBR. At the start, I had a boot error. About to insert the installation media, I tried "F9" and choose the portable hard drive, rather than boot manager. This worked, again, never I start time, I need to press F9 and select portable hard drive into my OS. I do not see an option in the BIOS to disable the UEFI boot and just boot the hard disk in the first place... can anyone help?

Second, it's probably the power of suggestion, I have seen on some sites that the computer may run more slowly, and it is, but just a little. I also know that the partitions are unallocated space * between * them. Defragmentation will arrange this... and it would be safe. On an old TOSHIBA, defragmentation ruined the drive, making it fail. Also, is it safe to delete the "system EFI Partiton? Thanks for the help!

Just a reminder, before posting! I'm not a baby and I know what I'm doing with computers, I didn't convert it just as an experiment. So, in conclusion, please don't answer "it is dangerous to edit partitions". I understand the risks, and if I have to reset my PC due to an error, I did several backups, so this isn't a problem. Honest answers please, once more, I don't know what I'm doing, I did this for years and I'm far from "noob" level!

Thanks in advance!

Happy day of remembrance, American citizens

-green0ovrs

Hi @green0ovrs,

Thank you for your response.

EFI partition is not to be confused with the recovery partition.  The tool HP EFI or is a diagnostic partition and does not Windows files contain.

HP EFI applications and provided pre-launch many pre-launch to the system BIOS functions residing in the flash ROM. These pre-launch of HP applications are placed on a specific partition of HP.

The recovery partition that has / have the HP Recovery Manager would have Windows and all HP software.

If when you reformatted the drive you don't erase or overwrite, then you would be able to do a cover for take it back as long as the plant.  If you did remove then would need a recovery kit to consider return to factory.

HP doesn't support multiple boot options, so I'm not able to advise on the order of the partitions or the way of the of for this.

Hope that helps!

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