I need help with ''mbr2gpt''. Very Wierd Issue! Cannot find room for..


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    I need help with ''mbr2gpt''. Very Wierd Issue! Cannot find room for..


    Cannot find room for the EFI system partition.

    Attachments Below Will Show My hard drive partition configuration.

    cmd says:
    PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> mbr2gpt /convert /allowfullos

    MBR2GPT will now attempt to convert the default book disk.
    If conversion is successful the disk can only be booted in GPT mode.
    These changes cannot be undone!

    MBR2GPT: Attempting to convert disk 0
    MBR2GPT: Retrieving layout of disk
    MBR2GPT: Validating layout, disk sector size is: 512 bytes
    MBR2GPT: Trying to shrink the OS partition
    Cannot find room for the EFI system partition.
    MBR2GPT: Conversion failed
    PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>

    (Windows Version: 21H1 OS Build: 19043.1288)

    Honestly Im Quite Stumped. Please Could Someone Give Me Some Pointers.
    also, when i right click the recovery partition i have no options except for ''help'' im not sure if this is normal or not and i have tried to shrink volume but it wont work i will also show a screensnip of that.

    if someone could help it would be very much appreciated.

    Thank You Very Much
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    ConorTech said:
    Cannot find room for the EFI system partition.

    Attachments Below Will Show My hard drive partition configuration.

    cmd says:
    PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> mbr2gpt /convert /allowfullos

    MBR2GPT will now attempt to convert the default book disk.
    If conversion is successful the disk can only be booted in GPT mode.
    These changes cannot be undone!

    MBR2GPT: Attempting to convert disk 0
    MBR2GPT: Retrieving layout of disk
    MBR2GPT: Validating layout, disk sector size is: 512 bytes
    MBR2GPT: Trying to shrink the OS partition
    Cannot find room for the EFI system partition.
    MBR2GPT: Conversion failed
    PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>

    (Windows Version: 21H1 OS Build: 19043.1288)

    Honestly Im Quite Stumped. Please Could Someone Give Me Some Pointers.
    also, when i right click the recovery partition i have no options except for ''help'' im not sure if this is normal or not and i have tried to shrink volume but it wont work i will also show a screensnip of that.

    if someone could help it would be very much appreciated.

    Thank You Very Much





    You don't need to "find room" for the EFI partition. When you run the MBR2GPT command, it will "steal" the 100MB it needs for the EFI partition, from the C:\ partition.

    Use Minitool Partition Wizard (free) Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Wizard Free
    ...to slide (MOVE), the C:\ partition to the left, so the unallocated space is to the right of C:\.
    OR... just RESIZE C:\ to include the unallocated space.

    I would recommend that you make a Macrium bootable Rescue media USB stick.
    That way you will have the "Fix Boot Problems" tool available to you.
    Macrium Software | Reflect Free Edition

    Also keep in mind that after you've converted to GPT, you must set the BIOS to UEFI or UEFI and Legacy, for Windows to be able to boot.
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