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BIOS/UEFI backup and restores

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Can you backup a BIOS system using TI 2013,
convert the system to UEFI,
and then restore it using TI 2013?

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If your system is using UEFI, the disk that your system boot on should be running the 64 bits version of Windows 7 or Windows 8.
Although technically UEFI systems should support MBR disks, Microsoft Windows 7 will pop up an error message trying to install Windows 7 with UEFI enabled on a MBR disk.
As a result, I would guess that the chances that your system will boot with UEFI enabled and a MBR restored image are slim.

Therefore, you would have to forget about it if you don't have a x64 bits WIndows system. I don't know about other OS like Linux.

Then, I would recommend you:
- backup your system using ATI 2013,
- swith your BIOS to UEFI,
- reformat your disk as a GPT disk. Than can be done with the add new disk feature of the recovery disk. or with the Windows installation DVD and diskpart from a command prompt,
- install Windows on the GPT disk. That will create all the boot records you need.
- restore the system partition and other user partition one after the other to the new disk.
- use the Windows installation DVD to repair the startup of your computer: new boot records will have to be written to the