Restore an MBR to a GPT partition
Re: Restore an MBR to a GPT partition
Yes on both items.
Re: Restore an MBR to a GPT partition
yes to both questions.
Re: Restore an MBR to a GPT partition
Yes, they were.
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Thanks. So after the conversion did you change the BIOS to enable UEFI booting and then you installed BIU? Did you have a Boot Item for Win10?
There was only one HD in the system?
There was only one HD in the system?
Re: Restore an MBR to a GPT partition
Bob, I just realised I don't understand what you did. There was no need to image or restore the partitions. Why was that done?
Did the OS boot prior to imaging?
Did the OS boot prior to imaging?
Re: Restore an MBR to a GPT partition
I have 2 Windows partition I use. One has Family Tree Maker and Photoshop Elements which I use occasionally. The second has TaxACT to do my taxes. To convert them I restored the MBR partition to another drive that had MBR and BIBM on it. I changed from MBR to GPT using gdisk which is on GParted Live using terminal not the Gparted GUI. I then booted into a Win10.iso and used cmd to create an EFI partition. Then I installed BIU to the drive. It booted into Windows and then I went back in BIU and imaged it to my "Image" drive. I erased that drive went back to MBR and restored my second Windows partition and repeated the same steps. Then I went to my "sacred" drive and erased it and installed GPT and BIU using the BIU flash. I booted into BIU on my "sacred" drive and restored my 1st Windows EFI partition. It wouldn't boot. I got the "no operating system" message. I tried to change the boot drive in BIU but it said it couldn't mount the partition. I then tried to restore all of the MBR partitions on my "sacred" drive and now having problems with Ubuntu and grub. So i'm at a position with no drives working. I am using my laptop now to answer this.
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Sorry I answered you three times above. I didn't realize I had gone to a second page and thought it wasn't posting for some reason. Thanks for you help.
Re: Restore an MBR to a GPT partition
Can you restore your MBR system? You don't seem to have followed the TeraByte tutorial so I can't comment on the result.
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Yes, I just got done restoring my "sacred" drive. It happens to be a Samsung 1TB SSD. It is now restored and booting all OS's.