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Clone/convert a Windows 7 MBR HDD to boot in a UFEI Laptop

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Laptop died and bought a Toshiba C55 UFEI with 8.1 Windows.

Need to stay with Win 7 and clone & convert deceased laptop MBR HDD to a new UFEI HDD

Can you do such an operation using Using Acronis True Image 2014 ?? I can format to GPT and clone but HD does not boot in UFEI Laptop.

Anybody knows ??

Thanks

Frankarl

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You have 2 separate problems

a) You need to move your Computer A image to Compute B. For this you need Universal Restore, which comes with a recover medium available with the Premium Edition. You will need to find the native Windows 7 drivers for your chipset and disk controller(s) from the PC manufacturer's web site, in their *.inf *.SYS format

b) You want to move an MBR disk a GPT disk to enable UEFI Bios. I am not sure it is a good idea. You could switch your BIOS to legacy BIOS and you could keep your image on an MBR disk. Much simpler IMO. If you insist, you will have to:
- make sure you ahve the Windows 7 64bit installation DVD handy,
- boot your computer on the Acronis recovery medium,
- choose add new disk to initialize your new disk as GPT, not MBR,
- create a System Reserved Paritition of a size of 350MB with a 1MB. If you cannot select 1MB because it changes to a fraction, that is OK,
- restore the system reserved partition of your image on the one you created,
- restore the C:\ partition of your image using Universal Restore in the unallocated space after the partition you created.
- boot the computer on the Windows 7 installation DVD, choose repair startup. YOu will have to go through several passes until the computer boots by itself.

Thanks Pat.

I think I will swallow Win 8.1 and just transfer all my data over and reinstall the software. Tha laptop I got does not allow to go back to legacy BIOS.

Thanks again.

This is what I would do as well. In fact, this is what I did :-)