Acronis Recovery Manager to Gpt Disk

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Currently, I have a Win OS with an MBR C drive and another 2TB drive labeled D which contains data files and application programs. It is currently an MBR disk also. I want to replace this D drive with a new 3TB drive which needs to be GPT for Win 7 to access. I backed up the D drive with True Image 2014 and want to recover to the new 3TB drive. Using the Acronis Recovery Manager, I declared the new D drive as GPT. I now have the option of copying the MBR and Track 0 of the original D drive to the new 3TB GPT drive. Should I accept this option? Does Win 7 need this information to access the 3TB GPT drive? Thank you for your assistance.

sam 28/12/2013 - 21:00
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Hi Joseph,

The short answer is Yes. Copy the Master Boot Record (MBR), Track 0; which contains the disk partition table, and all your partitions to your new drive. You can reorganize the partitions and such once you make the new drive your boot drive. Keep the old drive in tact until you're happy with the new drive. Good luck!

sam 28/12/2013 - 21:35
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MBR and track 0 is not needed - because it's a GPT disk and MBR is not used for booting from GPT disks, and also because you are going to use it as non-system disk.

sam 28/12/2013 - 22:39
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Yes, you're right, Fedor. Sorry, Joseph, misread your question. Here's a tutorial from Window Seven Forums if you need to do it using windows utilities: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26193-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-disk.ht…

dim 29/12/2013 - 02:28