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MBR2GPT Disk layout validation failed
When i try to run
mbr2gpt /validate /disk:0 /allowFullOS
i get the following output
MBR2GPT: Attempting to validate disk 0 MBR2GPT: Retrieving layout of disk MBR2GPT: Validating ...
I can see I still haven't clearly made my point.
It is not important to me to have Windows 11. It is important to me to have a VM that I can upgrade from Windows 10 at some point, such as when the greater Internet begins failing with its browsers, or we have another encryption failure flag-day such as POODLE, and nothing on the Internet will honor transactions from it anymore.
If I cannot install 11 today because my VM still uses legacy BIOS and the wrong disk format, I'm certainly never going to be able to install anything newer than 11 for exactly the same reason. Therefore I need to upgrade my VM.
I don't think I'm expecting too much to ask that a Windows utility, written to upgrade a disk format for precisely these purposes, work when I need to use it for these purposes.
Coming from an Apple background, I have migrated my personal contents onto new machines with zero problems since 1988. Maybe I'm spoiled. I never had to keep every DVD or download image for everything I added to the system, and so I did not when I began working on Windows, either. I didn't realize it was a platform deficiency, and I don't have a time machine to do it now.
It is not important to me to have Windows 11. It is important to me to have a VM that I can upgrade from Windows 10 at some point, such as when the greater Internet begins failing with its browsers, or we have another encryption failure flag-day such as POODLE, and nothing on the Internet will honor transactions from it anymore.
If I cannot install 11 today because my VM still uses legacy BIOS and the wrong disk format, I'm certainly never going to be able to install anything newer than 11 for exactly the same reason. Therefore I need to upgrade my VM.
I don't think I'm expecting too much to ask that a Windows utility, written to upgrade a disk format for precisely these purposes, work when I need to use it for these purposes.
Coming from an Apple background, I have migrated my personal contents onto new machines with zero problems since 1988. Maybe I'm spoiled. I never had to keep every DVD or download image for everything I added to the system, and so I did not when I began working on Windows, either. I didn't realize it was a platform deficiency, and I don't have a time machine to do it now.
Precisely why I recommended Acronis. You'll be able to literally clone your entire computer with that software. Coming from Mac, yep...I agree that you are in a lurch. And yes, spoiled. Had Mac's been more Web design friendly in the late 90's and into the early 2000's, I would be on a Mac now.
Regardless of how far you get with your current computer, I highly stress that Acronis is going to save your bacon in any situation. I completely understand now that you must back up what you have, and then move forward.
Let me ask, if I may. What is the specific name and model number of your motherboard, processor, and hard drive (including storage size in GB)?
It would seem you are technical enough to handle what I'm thinking, but I'd like to gather some information first.
Regardless of how far you get with your current computer, I highly stress that Acronis is going to save your bacon in any situation. I completely understand now that you must back up what you have, and then move forward.
Let me ask, if I may. What is the specific name and model number of your motherboard, processor, and hard drive (including storage size in GB)?
It would seem you are technical enough to handle what I'm thinking, but I'd like to gather some information first.
Mr_Garrison I mentioned that my Windows is in a VM. It runs under Parallels, on a MacBook Pro. I don't need a tool to back it up, I can copy the whole VM to another file if I need to, and run it like a separate PC.
(If it were MacOS, I could then use Migration Assistant to move all my personal files and apps to the virgin new-release VM, but it isn't, and I don't know of any tool that will do this on Windows, save one of those "pay me every time you use it so it better work the first time" third-party tools).
I'm not sure pursuing the hardware angle is going to go much of anywhere.