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Hey, Mr. Koch, ever heard about karma ?

 

It took me 30 minutes to change everything I did not like in Windows 11, using the free program Winaero Tweaker. It then took me a couple of days to get used to the general layout of the settings. The one thing I really dislike about Windows 11 is the acrobatics we have to do to set up a local account. What a pain.

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Charlie, Cybertooth

Ironically, a lot a people now refuse to update to windows 11 because they love windows 10…

The conversion from mbr to gpt worked. Next step, installing windows 11 on the unsupported PC. So Out and over for now. Thanks all.

I have windows 10 home on one laptop and I don’t see any settings about encryption. I only have a local account on that laptop.

Understood. I’m far from being an expert, so at first I was a bit overwhelmed by the numerous approaches suggested, but in fine, each advice made it clearer and clearer. So thanks again everybody. Merci from Montreal !

I was just wondering why it’s called a data partition and what is the purpose of that partition. Anyway, thanks, the conversion went well thanks to everybody here. Next step, in a few days, I’ll try to install windows 11. Still not sure if I should go straight for 24h2 so I would not have to reinstall again in November, or if I should start with 23h2.

I opened a Commend Prompt and reagentc was enabled. I disabled and then enabled it again. The operation was successful. So I guess everything is fine. Except, if you look at the first partition of my drive, it’s a basic data partition. Is that normal ?

Thanks to n0ads, Volume Z and PL1 for your help. Really appreciate it. Here’s a capture of the drive now :

 

Guys !

I’m glad to report the conversion worked ! I rebooted in the Bios, changed the priority to UEFI, and rebooted again, no glitch. Only thing, there was a message in the MBR2GPT report to the effect that it had failed to update ReAgent.xml and that I should try to do it manually. Should I do something about that, knowing there was no recovery partition on my drive anyway ?

See my reply to Volume Z : it’s already done and it worked. And mbr2gpt validation was successful. I will be able to make the conversion. Thanks.

Volume Z !
I downloaded the free version of MiniTool and converted the logical partition to a primary one with an assigned letter. Then I used mbr2gpt /validate and the validation was successful. Now I’m making another full Macrium image of the system just in case, and then I’ll proceed to the conversion with MBR2GPT.
So far so good ! Thanks !

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satrow, Volume Z

Volume Z !
I downloaded the free version of MiniTool and converted the logical drive to a primary partition with a letter. Then I tested again mbr2gpt /validate and the validation was successful. Now I’m making a new Macrium Image of the entire drive just in case and then I’ll proceed with the conversion to GPT with mbr2gpt.

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Volume Z

nOads, thanks, I might try that, although the poster Volume Z suggests using MiniTool Partition Wizard to do that without losing the data. I have to check that out first.

I did, but it failed, probably because I have a logical partition on the drive. So I’m going to try something else and if it fails, I’ll delete the logical partition and try mbr2gpt. I’ll keep you posted.

 

Thanks nOads. I had checked the official Microsoft instructions for mbr2gpt and it says, among other prerequisites, that “mbr2gpt won’t validate the operation if there’s a logical partition on the drive”. I have a logical partition on my drive but could delete it if necessary. I’m still looking at different methods to convert the drive. I’ll be back here with the results.