I have been been a happy camper using EasyBCD for probably 3 years now, but I got this error message today for the fist time ONLY after converting an MBR drive to GPT.
I useEasyBCD to multiboot to one of five different Windows 10 Pro 64 partitions on two drives. The main drive, with my "usage" windows partition, is a GPT drive. This drive has one experimental Win 10 partition. The second drive is MBR, and has the 3 remaining Win 10 partitions. Everything ran fine.
This second drive is 1 TB, with lots of wasted space, so I thought I would convert to GPT so I could have more primary partitions. So I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to convert that MBR drive to GPT. (The free version only converts a non-OS drive.) The conversion ran fine, but then EasyBCD couldn't find the partitions on this second drive. So I ran bcdboot X:/windows /s X: for each partition. At this point, EasyBCD displayed a window with this Error Opening BCD Registry at the top of the window, and no way to close the window. I had to use Task Manager to stop EasyBCD.
So I ran MiniTool again to convert the drive back to MBR, and re-assigned drive letters to each of the 3 Windows partitions. Normally, for security, I unassign a drive letter to these other partitions so my "usage" Windows doesn't get confused. Once I assigned this drive letters, EasyBCD ran fine. Then, for for security, I unassigned those drive letters. Now EasyBCD throws up the error window again. I don't understand why, because until today, I always ran with drive letters unassigned, and EasyBCD managed fine.
So what happened with this new error message, and what should I do? I'm OK with running bcdboot command lines.
Also, any idea why I got these error messages in the first place when I did the conversion to GPT?
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I useEasyBCD to multiboot to one of five different Windows 10 Pro 64 partitions on two drives. The main drive, with my "usage" windows partition, is a GPT drive. This drive has one experimental Win 10 partition. The second drive is MBR, and has the 3 remaining Win 10 partitions. Everything ran fine.
This second drive is 1 TB, with lots of wasted space, so I thought I would convert to GPT so I could have more primary partitions. So I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to convert that MBR drive to GPT. (The free version only converts a non-OS drive.) The conversion ran fine, but then EasyBCD couldn't find the partitions on this second drive. So I ran bcdboot X:/windows /s X: for each partition. At this point, EasyBCD displayed a window with this Error Opening BCD Registry at the top of the window, and no way to close the window. I had to use Task Manager to stop EasyBCD.
So I ran MiniTool again to convert the drive back to MBR, and re-assigned drive letters to each of the 3 Windows partitions. Normally, for security, I unassign a drive letter to these other partitions so my "usage" Windows doesn't get confused. Once I assigned this drive letters, EasyBCD ran fine. Then, for for security, I unassigned those drive letters. Now EasyBCD throws up the error window again. I don't understand why, because until today, I always ran with drive letters unassigned, and EasyBCD managed fine.
So what happened with this new error message, and what should I do? I'm OK with running bcdboot command lines.
Also, any idea why I got these error messages in the first place when I did the conversion to GPT?
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