Paragon Migrate to uEFI

[Paragon_MA]

Paragon Software Group proudly announces its latest utility for easiest way of migrating MBR disk based OS and data to uEFI configuration (mostly for hard drives that exceed 2TB limit).
Join the early adoption testing today and get your free copy.

Product web page: http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-to-uefi/
Reviewers Guide: http://download.paragon-software.com/doc/RG_Migrate2uEFI_eng291111.pdf

And we would be thankful if you fill this questionnaire:
1. Was your migration from MBR\BIOS to GPT\UEFI successful?
a. Yes
b. No. Please send us detailed info on the encountered problem with the following log files: stubact.log,
biontlog.txt, fdisk.txt, pwlog.txt, which you can find in the “program” folder of the installed product.
2. Was booting from the resulting GPT\UEFI successful?
a. Yes
b. No. Please send us detailed info on the encountered problem with the following log files: stubact.log,
biontlog.txt, fdisk.txt, pwlog.txt, which you can find in the “program” folder of the installed product.
3. Was the migration process intuitive?
a. Yes
b. No. Please list stages that caused problems to you and suggested improvements from your side.
4. Were all program dialogs clear to you?
a. Yes
b. No. Please list all confusing dialogs, or better send us screenshot based examples.
5. Do you think that Migrate to UEFI needs additional features?
a. Yes. Please describe features you want to have in the next version.
b. No.
6. Do you think that functionality of Migrate to UEFI needs to be extended?
a. Yes. What else would you like this solution to do? (i.e. migration to a bigger drive, support of complex
configurations, etc.)
b. No. It is good already and complete.
Thank you for your participation - We'll look forward for your feedback!

Thank you to everyone in advance
With best regards
Paragon Software Team

[thebigolddog]

Am I correct in determining this only works for the target machine? In other words, this can't be done on a non-UEFI machine that is being migrated to a new UEFI machine with new hardware? It seems to me, that would be the most likely scenario for using this tool - migrating to upgraded hardware. So, what most people would be doing would be making an image of the old machine, converting it to be compatible with UEFI and hopefully, strip out and replace the hardware specific features (drivers) of the old machine and allow a re-detection on the new bare metal hardware.

[Mech_An]

Migrate to uEFI doesn't perform adjustment for booting from dissimilar hardware. It is intended for migration to another boot mode of the same machine.

Windows 7 often doesn't need adjustment (even for migration from Intel to AMD machine) if HDD controller driver exists in Windows repository. To get it work you can temporary switch off third-party Marwel or JMicron support feature in BIOS\EFI and set SATA mode to IDE\Legacy.
If Windows 7 fails to start P2P Adjust OS will be required.

[liston]

1. Was your migration from MBR\BIOS to GPT\UEFI successful?
a. Yes

2. Was booting from the resulting GPT\UEFI successful?
a. Yes

3. Was the migration process intuitive?
a. Yes

4. Were all program dialogs clear to you?
a. Yes

5. Do you think that Migrate to UEFI needs additional features?

b. No.

b. No. It is good already and complete.

nice software

[commodore64]

having a bit of trouble--uefi will not run on my machine and paragon exchange protection 1.1 will not run on my win 7 pro 64.

asus m3n-ht deluxe mobo
dual core at 3.0 ghz
8 meg ram
1tb raid
will try my other mobo

[Mech_An]

-{ Quote: "having a bit of trouble--uefi will not run on my machine and paragon exchange protection 1.1 will not run on my win 7 pro 64.

asus m3n-ht deluxe mobo
dual core at 3.0 ghz
8 meg ram
1tb raid
will try my other mobo" }-

I don't see anything that can prevent Migrate to uEFI to run on your machine.
Could you please specify what exact error appears or what is not working?

[liston]

I Still have not found any problems

[fubushi]

And we would be thankful if you fill this questionnaire:
1. Was your migration from MBR\BIOS to GPT\UEFI successful?
b. No.
"Wizard does not support dymanic disks"

2. Was booting from the resulting GPT\UEFI successful?
b. n/a

3. Was the migration process intuitive?
a. Yes

4. Were all program dialogs clear to you?
a. Yes

5. Do you think that Migrate to UEFI needs additional features?
a. Yes. Please describe features you want to have in the next version.
Support dynamic drives.

6. Do you think that functionality of Migrate to UEFI needs to be extended?
Can not say at this point.

[mickiem]

1. Was your migration from MBR\BIOS to GPT\UEFI successful?

Yes. Worked fine installing to or in a few Windows installs.

2. Was booting from the resulting GPT\UEFI successful?

Yes

3. Was the migration process intuitive?

Yes. I liked the explanation of why certain disks/partitions were excluded, but *might* want to re-empasise 64 bit only.

4. Were all program dialogs clear to you?

Yes

5. Do you think that Migrate to UEFI needs additional features?

Yes... More like sugestions than absolute needs, a way of reversing the process would be nice, i.e. UEFI/GPT -> MBR -- Paragon's done a lot of work & is I think very well respected in virtualization circles, but UEFI support is lagging in VM hosts... right now I don't know how you'd do P2V with a UEFI installation. 2nd, I've read some reports that XP 32 may indeed be possible with UEFI, but from the little I've read it's been something achieved by manufacturers rather than something users or IT could accomplish... Is this something Paragon could or would want to try & tackle? All the XP users still around would make for a pretty big market.

6. Do you think that functionality of Migrate to UEFI needs to be extended?

Yes, but again more suggestion than absolute need... Right now installing Windows on a UEFI PC/laptop can be difficult. Use a setup DVD & the board may insist on using MBR mode accessing the disc, so win7 won't install to GPT in UEFI mode -- try to transfer the setup files to USB stick & the tools to do that won't touch an ISO made from the setup DVD [have to copy the files & create an ISO without the boot portion] -- at least one of the tools to create that bootable USB stick sets the stick up as NTFS, which UFEI won't [can't?] use. All that IMHO makes Migrate to UEFI by far *The* best choice for people upgrading hardware. To that end combining Migrate to UEFI & P2P Adjust would seem ideal.

Less important in my opinion, right now Migrate to UEFI seems to work fine targeting a VHD as well as a physical drive/partition, & once on a VHD, backups can be made etc. so the originating & target drives don't have to be in the same place &/or connected. I would imagine there are scenareos OTOH where having that sort of capability biult into Migrate to UEFI would prove useful, with IT for example creating/storing UFEI images. Likewise creating EUFI images from existing MBR backup images might be useful, the same way you can do P2V using a backup image in other Paragon software.

[Mech_An]

mickiem,

Thank you for very detailed review :)


fubushi,
Dynamic disks migration is not supported for now.

[vhick]

Thank you very much for this software. This will be less headache migrating your system to uEFI.

And we would be thankful if you fill this questionnaire:
1. Was your migration from MBR\BIOS to GPT\UEFI successful?
a. Yes

2. Was booting from the resulting GPT\UEFI successful?
a. Yes

3. Was the migration process intuitive?
a. Yes
b. No. Please list stages that caused problems to you and suggested improvements from your side.
4. Were all program dialogs clear to you?
a. Yes

5. Do you think that Migrate to UEFI needs additional features?
a. Yes. Reverse the process after conversion will be awesome but not limited to.

6. Do you think that functionality of Migrate to UEFI needs to be extended?
b. No, at this time.

[liston]

I have still not recovered any problems

[liston]

I have not noticed any problems yet.

[liston]

I still have not received any problems

[TheJoker]

It did not work for me, it even nearly killed my MBR disc.
Wher do I have to send the log files?

[Heychris]

I've done this on several HP elitebook laptops. The 8440p, 8460p, 2560p and 2540p.

And we would be thankful if you fill this questionnaire:
1. Was your migration from MBR\BIOS to GPT\UEFI successful?
a. Yes

2. Was booting from the resulting GPT\UEFI successful?
a. Yes

3. Was the migration process intuitive?
a. Yes- I would have preferred more options

4. Were all program dialogs clear to you?
a. Yes


5. Do you think that Migrate to UEFI needs additional features?
a. Yes. I would like to see a disk to disk copier included. I did the migration to another disk then copied it back onto the original. It would be easier to do if that was in the tools. Partition structure - I'd like advanced partitioning information. The ability to change the ESP partition from 100mb to 200mb would be nice.


6. Do you think that functionality of Migrate to UEFI needs to be extended?
a. Yes. In addition to disk migrate, I'd like to see some more information on what is being done. I noticed there isn't a MSR partition. I'd be curious to know why. Also. It'd be good to know what if any is being changed in the files and registry.

[Planet38]

Was your migration from MBR\BIOS to GPT\UEFI successful?

No.

I can not install the programs Paragon-235-PEE_WinInstallSNU_10.0.19.14476_000.msi or Paragon-PEP_WinInstallx64_1.0.11.12034_000.msi

I get the following message when I try to install it:

Paragon Migrate to uEFI does not work under this OS!

I can not provide the requested information because no Program File exists because the program will not install.

I thought these programs were for Windows XP but they seem to be for Vista or Windows 7.

I am trying to be able to partition a 3TB disk to enable my Windows XP OS to utilize this disk as storage.