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Question Converted to gpt now can't boot

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I converted my C: drive to gpt with the command mbr2gpt. I restarted and changed my bios to boot UEFI. Now it doesn't load windows. I just get a flashing curser. Booted into rescuezilla and ran gparted and disks. I can see the efi partition. Should it be the first partition? Does anything look wrong? How can I fix it? I did make an image with macrium reflect before I ran the command. But I really need to convert it to gpt so a restore just lets me start over.IMG_20220121_233445.jpg
 
Two comments. I don't like the no automount description on the EFI partition , I'd research that, and secondly I think there should be no more than 1data partition and this drive has two.
 
So, the large data partition is the windows and application install, ie. "C: drive" The smaller one is the system reserved partition. Not sure why it is flagged msftdata. As for no automount on the EFI partition. I don't see that as a flag I can give to the drive in gparted.
 
I don't think I need the system reserved partition for a GPT boot drive. I think it should only have the EFI, data, and recovery partitions. Maybe I should delete the system reserved one, and maybe move the EFI one to the front of the disk.
 
OlyAR15 said:
If you have your data backed up, just wipe everything and re-install Windows. Way easier that mucking about and potentially creating an unstable system.
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But, I would still need to install and configure all my apps. Or, are you saying I can just restore my windows data partition after a fresh install.
 
CU said:
But, I would still need to install and configure all my apps. Or, are you saying I can just restore my windows data partition after a fresh install.
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Apps are easy to install. To me, that is one of the benefits of starting over fresh: you can install the newest versions of your apps fresh, plus it allows you to reconsider what you are installing. What’s most important is your data.
 
I was under the impression that you had to tweak some windows / bootcfg settings too, besides just changing the partition type over from MBR to GPT, as well as telling your BIOS to boot UEFI.
 
No config changes. Just mbr2gpt. I have used it before without issue. Trying to use diskpart and bcdboot to create a new efi partition now.
 
That worked. I have one efi, data, and recovery partition now. And windows loads. Reagentc is disabled and will not enable though. So I do need to figure that out.
 
How my partitions look now.
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Got reagent working also. Seems it had the wrong guid. Here is what it looked liked before my fix.
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Found the correct guid by doing this.
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Then I used the one I circled like this.
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Oh, and when I was poking around in the BIOS I noticed my drives were set to IDE and not AHCI. Going to look into changing that next.
 
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