My 23H2 has winre.wim dated October 01, 2023. But the interesting thing is, I extracted it from an en-us and en-gb Windows 11 23H2 ISO, and the winre.wim files are different sizes, but same dates. What's the easiest way to update it? Disable and re-enable the recovery environment? Edit: I'm downloading new Windows 11 23H2 ISOs.
I just downloaded the latest Windows 11 Version 23H2 Build 22621.2861 ISOs. The winre.wim files are dated December 04, 2023. Once again, the en-us and en-gb files are different in size. I'll check your link out on the best way to update winre.wim.
Thanks. It's a little confusing though. It seems the article is mostly about converting the boot disk, not a plain data disk that doesn't contain the operating system.
If you just have a data disk that is already converted to GPT, then just follow the article from point 12 onwards. You do not need to worry about the MSR partition or fixing the EFI boot issues. Just restore your MBR data partition to the new GPT partition.
And in either case, if we have a disk image which was generated from the disk back when it was an MBR disk, we could instead simply delete the entire disk using diskpart /clean. Then the disc would look like it's new empty disk drive. Finally, we could just restore our MBR image. I'm thining this approach would work in general, whether it's data or system drive. (i.e. , the same procedure we normally use when replacing a dead disk drive.) Is my thinking close to correct? Or am I still missing something? Thanks for helping me learn.
Yes. Nothing special you need to do fobut restoring the entire disk will revert it to MBR. You can restore individual partitions from the old image onto the GPT disk while preserving its GPT state though. Use the drag and drop method to stage that type of restore. That pertains to restoring a disk containing a Windows partition. For data-only disks, it’s much less complicated.
Thanks. You guys are VERY helpful. Now I know how to get back to normal if my gpt experiments fail. Now, about going the other way (from mbr to gpt) ... I think I just found out that mbr2gpt.exe won't even work on a pure data disk; it's only for the system disk. Is that right? I have a couple of MBR data disks and I get validation error. I think I know how to do it by cleaning the disks, setting them to gpt and dragging the partitions in reflect, but wanted to be sure that my guess about mbr2gpt is right, and I don't have some other gremlin. EDIT: I found a microsoft article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt It says: "You can't use the tool to convert non-system disks from MBR to GPT". So I guess I'll just delete the partitions in disk management, change the disk to GPT, then drag the partitions back on it with macrium reflect. I hope I'm on the right track
MBR2GPT is indeed intended for disks that contain a Windows partition, and despite its name it creates an EFI and MSR partition to support UEFI booting, rather than just converting to GPT which on its own wouldn’t allow UEFI booting. Diskpart has a “convert gpt” command that works on regular disks, but I can’t remember offhand if it can do that when partitions already exist or if it’s only available for newly initialized disks. But if an in-place conversion doesn’t work, then yes your methodology with Reflect should be fine. The only reason I say “should” is that if you’re restoring from a single-partition MBR image onto an empty disk, that might revert the target to MBR even if you use drag and drop. If so, it might make a difference to pre-create a partition on the destination and drag and drop onto that. Or maybe you can create two partitions and restore over the first, then delete the second. I haven’t played with this scenario extensively.
Yeah, I did so many things that my memory might be bad, but I recall that I tried to use diskpart to convert to GPT, and it "seemed" to work and showed an asterisk under gpt with list disk. These was just data disks, while running a rescue win PE 10 environment. When I booted back into win 10, it was if I had done nothing. I figure there may have been some partitions still on the disks then. So maybe diskpart only works on freshly cleaned disks. Anyway, I finally got all my disks converted to UEFI and/or GPT, and everything seems to work so far. Thanks to all for the help!
I am still running Windows 10 Pro 22H2 (dell) and this model cannot be upgraded to Win 11. I will be given new hardware (HP Z6 G4) suitable to run Win 11, however this is not coming pre-installed with any OS. I don't mind buying Win 11 for this new PC but as I have my PC configured the way I like it, I would prefer to use an image to transfer everything as opposed to rebuilding the pc from scratch. Lots of licenses that would need to be deactivated or transferred with the need to figure out each time how this particular provider is handling this. Is there a convenient way to achieve my migration using an image either via Macrium or Terabyte or will I need to rebuild from scratch?
You can try Reflect with ReDeploy if you have the paid version. ReDeploy is specifically designed for this scenario. But it won’t deal with your software licensing considerations — although a clean install will of course require similar effort anyway.
Right, I assumed imaging is easier with respect to licenses but using different hardware puts a stop to that. In the past I either did not have that requirement or preferred to do a clean start anyway. Still at least those customised setups do not need to be recreated.
Whether a hardware change affects your software licenses will depend on the software. Not every licensed application falls out of activation when hardware changes. If you prefer a clean install anyway, then that is of course an option. But ReDeploy is available in paid versions of Reflect if you want to at least see what that path would look like before going for a clean install, which is usually a longer process.
Just wondering.. The failed Windows Recovery Environment update for Windows 10 (KB5034441) does anyone think it could have any impact on imaging if people try to fix it manually by using Disk Management to increase the recovery partition size? https://www.tenforums.com/windows-1...n-9-a.html?s=13b0d41a52c19abfbe6b796952d47d4d It didn't fail on my Win 10 machine because I don't have a recovery partition.
Unfortunately, I missed the discount opportunities. Can I find a discount coupon so that I can buy it at an affordable price?
The one-time purchase plan wasn't discounted anyway. Only the annual plan. So I missed it too but by purpose.
Hi and sorry I might be having a brain fritz..? WHere can I edit my macrium Backup plan ?? I cant seem to acces the file in Macrium regards and belated HNY **** Never Mind: sorted. Sorry. Longboard
What is the best way to backup or clone in this scenario? I am new to Macrium. I have a SSD drive in my current laptop. I know I have Bitlocker enabled on it (as well as TPM). I have the Bitlocker recovery key. I do not want to disable Bitlocker before cloning/imaging unless absolutely necessary, for efficiency reasons. Further, to clarify, this will be a one-off backup/archive - and have no plans to perform incremental/differential backups. I want to do the backing up / clone by taking the SSD outside of the laptop (no Macrium installed on the current laptop and no plans to install it on my current laptop, unless absolutely necessary). So would the steps be that I mount the laptop SDD into my PC (or some mountable dock), and then what are the steps in Macrium on my PC? - I had considered taking the SSD outside to do the backup because I imagine it is logistically difficult to do so on a laptop (because how would I attach an internal 3.5" PC SDD/HDD to a laptop - as laptops only take 2.5" SDD/HDD's - in order to perform the backup). The latter is the more core reason as to why, and also as 80% of the 1TB internal SSD on the laptop is used, I cannot backup an 'image' as there is insufficient space on the drive. So cloning makes more sense. But again, I am new to this so I am not sure what would be the 'best' way to go about it and would appreciate any assistance. How would I clone/image this laptop SSD to a new hard drive (I am thinking of buying a HDD or SDD) as a backup (in case I want to open my files on a 2nd laptop). Also, after/once I clone/image to the new SDD/HDD, would the old SDD still be useable, or does the Bitlocker encryption make/render the data on the old SDD unreadable? Just want to make sure that the old SDD in my current laptop is still usable / will not be affected, after cloning/imaging. Any tips, considerations and guides would be highly appreciated. Thanks very much.
