{"id":337,"date":"2022-09-11T23:51:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T03:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/?p=337"},"modified":"2022-09-11T23:51:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T03:51:32","slug":"move-to-new-hardware-and-convert-mbr-bios-to-uefi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/2022\/09\/11\/move-to-new-hardware-and-convert-mbr-bios-to-uefi\/","title":{"rendered":"Move to New Hardware and Convert MBR\/BIOS to UEFI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/knowledgebase.macrium.com\/display\/KNOW80\/Restoring+an+MBR+System+image+to+UEFI-GPT\" target=\"_blank\">Macrium Reflect Free Guide MBR BIOS to UEFI<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-hardware\/manufacture\/desktop\/configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Windows Partitioning Guide<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-hardware\/manufacture\/desktop\/oem-deployment-of-windows-desktop-editions-sample-scripts\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Sample Deployment Scripts<\/a> (includes partition script)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview Steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Obtain backup of target system (VHD or Macrium image of all drives preferred)<\/li><li>Manually partition destination disk (Boot to WinPE\/Macrium Recovery, see script below to partition)<\/li><li>Restore C: partition from backup to Windows partition on the new (now GPT) disk<\/li><li>Repair Windows Boot (Fix Windows Boot Problems)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Use Macrium Reflect Free  &#8211; backup to external drive and test prior<\/li><li>A fast external hard drive will make this step much easier.  Store the backup image on it, then move it to the new machine to restore.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>list disk\nselect disk 0\nclean\nconvert gpt\ncreate partition efi size=512\nformat quick fs=fat32 label=\"System\"\nassign letter=\"S\"\ncreate partition msr size=128\ncreate partition primary\nshrink minimum=500\nformat quick fs=ntfs label=\"Windows\"\nassign letter=\"W\"\ncreate partition primary\nformat quick fs=ntfs label=\"Recovery\"\nassign letter=\"R\"\nset id=\"de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac\"\ngpt attributes=0x8000000000000001\nlist volume\nexit<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key References Macrium Reflect Free Guide MBR BIOS to UEFI Microsoft Windows Partitioning Guide Microsoft Sample Deployment Scripts (includes partition script) Overview Steps Obtain backup of target system (VHD or Macrium image of all drives preferred) Manually partition destination disk (Boot to WinPE\/Macrium Recovery, see script below to partition) Restore C: partition from backup to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XdjT-5r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jjhayes.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}