Timeline for Fixing boot after cloning Windows 10 partition from GPT UEFI to MBR legacy?
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| Apr 5, 2023 at 18:11 | comment | added | OuzoPower | Thank you. I'm now facing the partition alignment issues because of the 4K sectors of my AF drive. Should I simply install Windows (hoping it would take care of the partition alignement), and then clone only the C:\Windows partitions (overwritting existing one)? Or should I create approximately the same partition structure using GParted (or else), prior to installing Windows or cloning one after each other each partition from the SSD? What about the recovery partition? Use the one of the new install or the original one? I assume some "repair" will be necessary after cloning the system. Thanks. | |
| Apr 5, 2023 at 16:38 | history | edited | OuzoPower | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2023 at 16:36 | comment | added | Ramhound | MBR is incompatible with UEFI mode. If you boot an installation media while UEFI mode is enabled, the only way you can install Windows, is on a GPT disk. A MBR will not show up and give you an error message making it appear you don't have the approrpriate drivers (since no disk will be listed). | |
| Apr 5, 2023 at 16:34 | comment | added | OuzoPower | Basically, I would prefer using legacy mode because, at least for me, UEFI has always be a nightmare. If I had installed in UEFI, would Windows have formatted the disk in GPT? Would then the overwritting of the C:\Windows partition by cloning have worked? Or can I prepartition the drive in GPT and then install Windows with legacy boot? | |
| Apr 5, 2023 at 13:03 | comment | added | Ramhound | “By default, the partitioning has been made of the MBR type.” - By default it should have been GPT, if it’s MBR, that’s means when Windows was originally installed it was installed while Legacy Mode (CSM) was enabled. | |
| Apr 5, 2023 at 11:34 | answer | added | harrymc | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 5, 2023 at 11:19 | history | asked | OuzoPower | CC BY-SA 4.0 |