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Can't keep MBR when cloning

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Hi All,

I'm trying to speed up my godson's old Dell PC.  He currently has a 500Gb HDD with only about 107Gb in use.  I am trying to clone the HDD to a 240Gb Sandisk SSD.  To speed things up, I've put both drives into my WIn 10 box.  Whenever I try to clone the drive I get a message saying that "The selected disk will be converted to a GPT layout that makes the disk bootable." 

Except that when I try to boot from the SSD his machine says there is no bootable disk.

Any ideas?

 

Regards

 

Mark

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Are you using Recovery Media to perform the clone? 

If yes, is the Win 10 box you speak of booted using UEFI?

If yes when you boot the Recovery Media do you see UEFI in the name of that media when you select it in the bios?

If yes, then what you are seeing is expected behavior.

 

Does you godson's laptop boot using UEFI?  I suspect not and therein lies the problem.

 

If you wish to clone a disk from a non UEFI booted system then you must boot the Recovery Media in non-UEFI mode.  When you enter the bios to set the boot order to boot the Recovery Media look closely at the entries there.  You should 2 entrikes for the Media, one that begins with UEFI and another that does not.  You need to select the entry that does not have UEFI in the name to boot to a non-UEFI mode which in turn will produce a non-UEFI disk which will be formatted MBR not GPT and will boot in a non-UEFI computer.

Hi Enchantech,

Thanks for getting back to me. No, not recovery media, I am using clone disk.

Regards

 

Mark

Mark, if you are using Live Clone from within Windows on a UEFI booted system, then you cannot use the Automatic cloning method, but will need to use the Manual method, which then will give you more options.

See the ATI 2018 User Guide: Clone Disk Wizard which states the following:

Manual—Manual mode will provide more data transfer flexibility. Manual mode can be useful if you need to change the disk partition layout.

In the Manual partitioning help it states:

Specify the following settings for the partition:

  • Size and position
  • File system
  • Partition type (available only for MBR disks)
  • Partition letter and label

Refer to Partition settings for details.

Note: because you will be defining the partition setting manually, you should get a print out from Windows Disk Management for the source MBR disk showing exactly what the current layout is, so that you can replicate this in the manual configuration.

The alternative here would be to use the Acronis Rescue Media booted on the original Dell PC where this would then use Legacy boot mode and handle the migration for you.

Mark, thanks for confirming this resolved the MBR issue, always good to hear!