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This article covers restoring a disk image of a UEFI/GPT system and enable the restored image to boot using legacy MBR booting.
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Caution: We assume there are no other hardware differences between the system being imaged and the system being restored to. For dissimilar hardware, use ReDeploy. |
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Boot into Windows PE.
Open a Windows command window. To open a command window click the icon
on the taskbar.Type:
Code Block language text theme FadeToGrey diskpart
Type:
Code Block language text theme FadeToGrey list disk
Select the disk number that you want to restore to. For example:
Code Block language text theme FadeToGrey select disk 3
Warning Please ensure that you use the correct disk number in the above command. Clean the selected disk:
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Ensure that the target disk is MBR formatted
Code Block language text theme FadeToGrey convert mbr
Create the Microsoft System Reserved partition
Code Block language text theme FadeToGrey create par pri size=300
Format the MSR partition:
Code Block language text theme FadeToGrey format fs=NTFS quick
Set the partition 'Active'
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Exit Diskpart:
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- In Macrium Reflect, click Backup tab.
- Click Refresh to read the newly initialized disk.
- Click Restore tab.
Select the image file, drag and drop just the Windows System partition to the free space on the target disk. In this example, only the 'C:' partition is restored to the target disk.
Info Note: You can click 'Restored Partition Properties' to resize the restored partition to fill the new disk if you wish. - Click 'Next' then 'Advanced Options' > 'Master Boot Record' and select the 'Do not replace' option for the master boot record.
Follow the steps in the section Fix boot problems on MBR/BIOS systems in the following KB article:
Fixing Windows boot problemsInfo Note: You should select the newly created 300MB partition as the 'Active' partition when running 'Fix Boot Problems'