Restore BIU partitions
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 10:54 pm
In an earlier post I stated I wanted to change my main hard drive from MBR to UEFI. Brian K was helping me and it sort of got waylaid because my wife and I took a trip to California to spend Thanksgiving with our son and his family.
Anyway, so now I have converted my MBR programs to EFI. I used this technique. I have a spare 128GB SDD. I disconnected all other drives, and set the SSD to MBR. I then created a 250 MB partition with fat32 and restored my Windows 10 MBR partition just after the 250MB partition. I created the rest of the SSD to fat32 just to take up space. I then deleted the 250MB partition so I had 250MB of unallocated space on the drive. This was done with my BIBM flash drive. The SSD didn’t have BIBM on it. I then booted a flash drive with GParted Live on it. I got this from: slavisa-jovanovic.com/linux/2015/02/19/mbr-to-gpt.html I used the terminal in GParted Live to change the MBR to GPT by using “sudo gdisk /dev/sdb” CLI command. I did nothing with the GUI part except to verify the SSD identity. Then I booted into a Win10.iso flash drive and entered the cmd mode in the repair setup. restore-repair-deleted-efi-boot-partition-in-windows-10-8-7 - Method 2. It worked fine. I then installed BIU on the SSD and verified that it booted OK. I then imaged it using the installed BIU to my separate image drive. The BIU was installed having BIU EFI control everything.
I now have 3 EFI images and want to put them all on a single 1TB SSD using BIU to select. How do I restore them? Do I copy the EFI partition along side of the BIU EFI? Do I replace the BIU EFI with the Windows EFI or just not copy the EFI partition. I can’t seem to find how to restore EFI partitions in BIU anywhere on the website.
Thanks in advance.
Anyway, so now I have converted my MBR programs to EFI. I used this technique. I have a spare 128GB SDD. I disconnected all other drives, and set the SSD to MBR. I then created a 250 MB partition with fat32 and restored my Windows 10 MBR partition just after the 250MB partition. I created the rest of the SSD to fat32 just to take up space. I then deleted the 250MB partition so I had 250MB of unallocated space on the drive. This was done with my BIBM flash drive. The SSD didn’t have BIBM on it. I then booted a flash drive with GParted Live on it. I got this from: slavisa-jovanovic.com/linux/2015/02/19/mbr-to-gpt.html I used the terminal in GParted Live to change the MBR to GPT by using “sudo gdisk /dev/sdb” CLI command. I did nothing with the GUI part except to verify the SSD identity. Then I booted into a Win10.iso flash drive and entered the cmd mode in the repair setup. restore-repair-deleted-efi-boot-partition-in-windows-10-8-7 - Method 2. It worked fine. I then installed BIU on the SSD and verified that it booted OK. I then imaged it using the installed BIU to my separate image drive. The BIU was installed having BIU EFI control everything.
I now have 3 EFI images and want to put them all on a single 1TB SSD using BIU to select. How do I restore them? Do I copy the EFI partition along side of the BIU EFI? Do I replace the BIU EFI with the Windows EFI or just not copy the EFI partition. I can’t seem to find how to restore EFI partitions in BIU anywhere on the website.
Thanks in advance.