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Zachary-Cavanell
Apr 05, 2017Bronze Contributor
Shifting from BIOS to UEFI with the Windows 10 Creators Update MBR2GPT disk conversion tool
Comprehensive yet quick video overview that explains how you can safely and non-destructively convert a Windows 10 machine from legacy BIOS to UEFI disk partitioning; and how you can automate the con...
Valdas Valdas
Apr 13, 2017Copper Contributor
hi, if mbr disk have 4 partitions it will fail, i deleted one partition then it worked.
Christian Bernardt
Jun 14, 2017Brass Contributor
This makes sense as the conversion process will create one partition hence you at most can have three existing partitions. The documentation here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt
actually states:
There are at most 3 primary partitions in the MBR partition table
But, again a shoutout to Microsoft developers: The errors you (Developers) throw are not there for so only you can debug your code. They are first and foremost for the user to understand what has gone wrong. So the question remains: Why is there no error message on validation that states: There are too many partition on disk x, please reduce the number of partitions to at most 3 to be able to convert. --> This should not be that hard.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt
actually states:
There are at most 3 primary partitions in the MBR partition table
But, again a shoutout to Microsoft developers: The errors you (Developers) throw are not there for so only you can debug your code. They are first and foremost for the user to understand what has gone wrong. So the question remains: Why is there no error message on validation that states: There are too many partition on disk x, please reduce the number of partitions to at most 3 to be able to convert. --> This should not be that hard.