Clone MBR Win 10 64 OS Partition and convert to GPT in one felt woop!
Im a Nu-B to True Image and haven't read through the Doc. BUT! With the 2016 SW is it possible to Clone my Win 10 64 OS currently in MBR volumes and convert it to the new GPT volumes, OR, is there a procedure to do this? I have an ASUS with the GUID firmware.
I cucessfully cloned the OS, using automatic, to another MBR part and am currently booted to it. What would be the procedure to make the newly cloned boot volune, currently K, my C volume. I haven't deleted the old C part.
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Yes, it should work when going from MBR to GPT if your bios supports it and is configured properly at the bios level already. You cannot go from GPT/UEFI back to MBR though with Acronis (just as a heads up... it only works the other way in this case)
Basically, instead of a clone, take a full disk image "as is" with all bootable paritions.
Boot to your offline recovery media in UEFI mode!!!! This is the key. Then restore the entire disk and all paritions, but leave off the MBR track 0 one. Restore everything to the new disk. Shutdown system before attempting to boot into the new disk. Move new disk to the same slot and connector as the original (leave the original offline for now).
Boot the system and see how it goes. You may need to go back into the bios and change the boot order depending on your BIOS boot options as well.
From Steve's link above:
Partition style after recovery
The target disk's partition style depends on whether your computer supports UEFI and on whether your system is BIOS-booted or UEFI-booted. See the following table:
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My system is BIOS-booted (Windows or Acronis Bootable Media) |
My system is UEFI-booted (Windows or Acronis Bootable Media) |
My source disk is MBR and my OS does not support UEFI |
The operation will not affect neither partition layout nor bootability of the disk: partition style will remain MBR, the destination disk will be bootable in BIOS. |
After operation completion, the partition style will be converted to GPT style, but the operating system will fail booting from UEFI, since your operating system does not support it. |
My source disk is MBR and my OS supports UEFI |
The operation will not affect neither partition layout nor bootability of the disk: partition style will remain MBR, the destination disk will be bootable in BIOS. |
The destination partition will be converted to GPT style that will make the destination disk bootable in UEFI. See Example of recovery to UEFI system. |
My source disk is GPT and my OS supports UEFI |
After operation completion, the partition style will remain GPT, the system will fail booting on BIOS, because your operating system cannot support booting from GPT on BIOS. |
After operation completion, the partition style will remain GPT, the operating system will be bootable on UEFI. |
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