

So that I may opt for that option in the future. There appears to be third party utility which allows converting MBR disk to GPT without loosing data. UEFI for GPT disks, Legacy for MBR disks. Then after restoring, you need to set the BIOS to match the partitioning scheme (GPT or MBR) used. If the backup was made of a GPT disk, you need to restore it to a GPT disk.same goes for backups made of MBR disks. The disk utility mentioned above allows restoring to a dissimilar hardware machine as shown under the following link:Īcronis True Image 2021: Restoring to dissimilar hardware with Acronis Universal Restore | Knowledge BaseĪnyone who has done what I am trying to do? I am presently pursuing a solution with MBR style system drives. The new system allows either GPT or MBR style drive. There was no problem restoring the W8 backup but the W10 fails to boot. I installed in the new machine, SATA SSDs, and M.2 NVMe SSDs. So the backups in the following means that created using the utility. I have been using a disk utility for quite some time to create backup images and restore them. I want to restore a W10 backup onto the new machine I assembled. The old machine is FX6300 on Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 and the new machine is Ryzen 5 5600X on Gigabyte X570X AORUS Ultra.
