clean install with anniversary update & disk conversion BIOS to UEFI

Thanks for everyone's input, and especially to Cereberus and Kbird for their solutions.
I will report back once I have performed the conversion.

marymmcc said:

Thanks for everyone's input, and especially to Cereberus and Kbird for their solutions.
I will report back once I have performed the conversion.

What I had to do may not apply directly to you situation , so ask questions if you need to .....

good luck

KB.

I know this is marked as solved but...http://www.thewindowsclub.com/convert-mbr-to-gpt-diskHe asked earlier if he could use gptgen to do it and some one said no... yes you can actually.

I have successfully converted my BIOS disk to UEFI using Macrium without losing any data!!! I am very pleased about this. I do have some questions:
1.Why are my partitions still marked as NTFS, while my system partition is marked EFI?
2.My boot time is now much slower than before. The image I restored was from immediately before the conversion. Is there some tweaking I need to do to this GPT?
thanks

marymmcc said:

I have successfully converted my BIOS disk to UEFI using Macrium without losing any data!!! I am very pleased about this. I do have some questions:
1.Why are my partitions still marked as NTFS, while my system partition is marked EFI?
2.My boot time is now much slower than before. The image I restored was from immediately before the conversion. Is there some tweaking I need to do to this GPT?
thanks

That is not a standard GPT disk structure , I think you reimaged the WHOLE DRIVE , not just C:\ after the Conversion

Install Minitool Partition Wizard 9 Free and lets see what it sees ....... it will show the hidden MSR partition too if you are GPT.


KB

Kbird said:

That is not a standard GPT disk structure , I think you reimaged the WHOLE DRIVE , not just C:\ after the Conversion

Install Minitool Partition Wizard 9 Free and lets see what it sees ....... it will show the hidden MSR partition too if you are GPT.


KB

yes, I reimaged the whole drive

I just noticed that changing to UEFI turned on "enable fast boot" where previously I had it turned off. I tried disabling it, and I believe the boot was a little faster.

been a while, since we started..... was it a Windows 8 computer previously ? it is showing a 128mb MSR (Other) Partition which was the Standard Win.8/8.1 size. So I think you Converted the Disk and then reimaged the Whole Drive instead of just C: partition from the Old Backup image. And in your Case the E: and F: drives too , ie your Data Partitions.

Windows 10 normally has

450mb Recovery
100mb EFI (System)
16mb MSR (Other)
XXX GB C:\ Drive

you also would have
110.10 GB E:
114.07 GB F:

BTW you CDRom does not need to be D:\ I usually make mine Z:\ so my HDDs are c.d.e.f.g etc , you can change the letter in MTPW or Disk management , however if you change letter it could effect programs that start off CD though there are not many of those now.....
If you have program installed on E; and F: then they would need reinstalling if you change those Drive letters to D: and E: but if they are just Data storage (Pic/Docs etc) then it won't matter .

***Edit ....I thought you wanted a Clean Win10 Install of AU so why did you restore from a Backup?


KB

yes, I did want a clean boot, but also wanted to keep my data and programs. And so, I installed the anniversary update first, imaged the drive with Macrium, converted to uefi, then rewrote the drive with the image.