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#Mbr to gpt command prompt install#
#Mbr to gpt command prompt windows 10#
#Mbr to gpt command prompt free#

/validate– the disk is only validated if the partition table can be converted (including the check of free space to store the primary and the secondary GPT table: 16 KB + 2 sectors in the beginning of the disk and 16 KB + 1 sector in the end).

The BCD bootloader configuration is updated.

GPT metadata and partition table are applied to the disk (the MBR partition table is converted to GPT without losing data on existing partitions).

UEFI boot files are copied to the EFI partition.

If there is no EFI (ESP) system partition, it is created using free space from one of the partitions (if there is not enough free space, an error message will appear “ cannot find room for the EFI system partition”).

The logic of Mbr2gpt when converting an MBR disk to a GPT is as follows:

The BCD configuration must have a boot record pointing to a Windows partition.

The MBR table should contain no more than 3 partitions, one of which is active (additional and logical partitions should be missing).

There is free space on the disk for placing the primary and secondary GPT tables at the beginning and end of the disk.

The MBR2GPT documentation says, that the following conditions must be met to convert a disk partition table to GPT:

#Mbr to gpt command prompt install#

But to convert a system disk, you had to completely clean up the disk, create GPT partition table and new partitions on it, and then perform a clean install of Windows 10. Earlier, a third-party tool gptgen, could be used to convert a non-system disk from MBR to GPT without losing existing partitions.

Previous Windows versions (Win 7/8.1) are not officially supported.

#Mbr to gpt command prompt windows 10#

You can use mbr2gpt to convert a disk from MBR to GPT in offline mode on earlier Windows 10 builds (1507, 15). The mbr2gpt.exe tool is part of the Windows 10 image, starting from build 1703 (Creators Update).

You can use this tool to change the partition table from MBR to GPT both on the data (non system) disk and on the system disk, on which Windows 10 is installed (using the /allowFullOS option). The mbr2gpt tool can be used to convert the partition table both in Windows PE (Windows Preinstallation Environment) and directly from the running Windows 10. Mbr2gpt.exe is a new built-in Windows 10 console tool that allows you to convert a disk with the MBR (Master Boot Record) partition table to a GPT (GUID Partition Table) without data loss and without the need to delete existing partition.