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