mbr2gpt problem after deployment
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I have a set of laptops to image to factory settings for our Senior class. The students can buy their laptops for 1$ after graduation. I have to put them back to factory setup. Anyway, my question is. I setup my source laptop without secure boot. I then captured the image, Then I did the MBR2GPT thing on the source laptop. This worked as it should. I changed the BIOS to UEFI boot. It was all good.
I then started imaging some others using the captured source image. I tried the same MBR2GPT process. I get the error MBR2GPT cannot find OS partition when I try to do this.
Any ideas as to what is happening? Or a free fix for the problem. I have approximately 50 of these to do.
My reason for doing this way is if the student wanted to go Windows 11, they could. I don’t want to force it onto some of the students that may not to go that route.
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@ariederer26 Is the image type set to resizable or non-resizable? Default is resizable in FOG but I suggest you use non-resizable if the laptops all have the same disk size.
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MBR2GPT not finding the OS partition is either corrupt BCD, or missing recovery environment. Both would occur if not all partitions including the recovery partition, or you didn’t capture the recovery env from the main os partition. Possibly fastboot was enabled and you had a fastboot state saved when captured as well?
Resizable should work, but I suspect that not all partitions were captured being the root cause.
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Thank you for the quick replies. Turns out I did have Fastboot enabled. The Recovery environment was not setup as well. Had to copy winre.wim, and enable the reagentc. Did those things and recaptured the image. Deployed to another laptop and it’s working properly.
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