My desktop PC has a spec that was decent for its time (2010), but is now long overdue for improvement. Although nothing is actually broken, I'm planning a motherboard upgrade for a number of reasons. That will involve a variety of tasks, and experience has taught me that one of the worst will be migrating my Windows 10 installation from BIOS/MBR to UEFI/GPT. I also multi-boot into a couple of Linux installations, but am expecting the changes there to be more straightforward (not least because I know more about Linux than about Windows).
I've used both EasyBCD and EasyRE in the past to sort out issues on several computers, and have found them to be life-savers - so that's why I'm here.
I would appreciate any guidance on what I can do, both before and after the motherboard swap, to make Windows migration as trouble-free as possible. I have 3 hard drives, 2 of which are GPT formatted - the third (the one where Windows 10 is installed) being MBR formatted. At some point in the process I'll reformat the Windows drive as GPT, but I'm not sure when to do that. If I do it before the mobo swap then Windows will no longer boot (because my current mobo doesn't support UEFI booting). Maybe it will then "just work" when the new mobo is installed - but I've been the IT game too long to believe that. So, should I do the board swap first, and then (assuming my new mobo still supports BIOS/MBR booting) do the GPT formatting at that stage? And finally switch the boot mode from BIOS to UEFI?
I hope the above makes some sort of sense. Does anyone have any useful ideas on the subject - either directly, or pointers to other useful sources of information? Are EasyBCD/EasyRE likely to be helpful to me?
TIA,
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Bill
I've used both EasyBCD and EasyRE in the past to sort out issues on several computers, and have found them to be life-savers - so that's why I'm here.
I would appreciate any guidance on what I can do, both before and after the motherboard swap, to make Windows migration as trouble-free as possible. I have 3 hard drives, 2 of which are GPT formatted - the third (the one where Windows 10 is installed) being MBR formatted. At some point in the process I'll reformat the Windows drive as GPT, but I'm not sure when to do that. If I do it before the mobo swap then Windows will no longer boot (because my current mobo doesn't support UEFI booting). Maybe it will then "just work" when the new mobo is installed - but I've been the IT game too long to believe that. So, should I do the board swap first, and then (assuming my new mobo still supports BIOS/MBR booting) do the GPT formatting at that stage? And finally switch the boot mode from BIOS to UEFI?
I hope the above makes some sort of sense. Does anyone have any useful ideas on the subject - either directly, or pointers to other useful sources of information? Are EasyBCD/EasyRE likely to be helpful to me?
TIA,
--
Bill