Convert MBR System Partition to GPT
I have attempted to figure out how to do this for several days now. I attempted to send a private message to somebody but the forums were not picking up their name, nor was their a "TO" field, so I just got errors.
The basic background of my problem is the following:
1) Create a full system image on old system with True Image 2013 Plus Pack
2) Restored this system image on my new system using the Universal Restoration feature.
Result: System disk is MBR instead of GPT. There was no clear option to restore the system image onto a GPT partition.
New System is a Haswell Motherboard and from everything I can tell is currently running in UEFI mode.
Question:
How do I restore my system image onto a GPT partition? The target disk is larger then the system disk.
My motherboard is a Maximus Extreme VI, Intel 4770K so from everything I have read in the manual should be possible. Before I spend the money on a different image program I want to verify its not possible with Acronis.
There have been other question but none really go into detail of what to do exactly to restore the system image so the resulting disk is a GPT partition disk.
Here is the documentation I am reading:
http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ATIH2013/index.html#22788…
I just notice that I might need to convert the basic disk into a dynamic disk. Is that correct?
Just in case - you recover it in disk mode, from bootable media booted in UEFI mode, and the OS supports UEFI (i.e. it's 64-bit Vista or above), ?
Windows 8.
I thought I had booted to the recover media in UEFI mode, is that not the default, on these new systems?
I don't know how it is set by default on such motherboards (if they use the same settings at all). Nothing in what you do seems to be wrong. If you contact Acronis support, they may give you latest version of Backup & recovery bootable media, so that you can try to backup the system again (archives made by TI can't be read with B&R) and restore using this bootable media.
p.s - don't use WinPE-based True Image media if you need to convert the disk to GPT, because being 32-bit it's always BIOS-booted.
I don't know how it is set by default on such motherboards (if they use the same settings at all). Nothing in what you do seems to be wrong. If you contact Acronis support, they may give you latest version of Backup & recovery bootable media, so that you can try to backup the system again (archives made by TI can't be read with B&R) and restore using this bootable media.
p.s - don't use WinPE-based True Image media if you need to convert the disk to GPT, because being 32-bit it's always BIOS-booted.
I am not trying to use Backup and Recovery 11.5. I will attempt to create a second media from the current build of True Image. I will also try to use the WinPE recovery media because of the EFI drivers that are loaded onto it.
I will be sure to double check my bios before booting into the recovery media to verify the disk is booted into UEFI.