Windows 10: I am trying to make my system ready for Windows 11. I need to convert my boot drive a...

As it says above. When I type in the command 'mbr2gpt.exe /convert' it starts then fails with the error message 'Disk Layout Validation Failed'. I am running Windows 10 Home 64 bit version 20H2 on an SSD.Is the layout of the SSD causing the problem and what is the solution?

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Converting a dual boot system disc to single boot

Hi Panagiotis,

Disk Management is a built-in tool in Windows 10 which helps you manage hard disk partitions without rebooting the system and any interruption. Some of the features of Windows 10 Disk Management are as follows:

• Create, delete and format partitions.
• Change drive letter and paths.
• Mark partition as active.
• Explore partition to view files.
• Extend and shrink partition.
• Add mirror.
• Initialize a brand new disk before you can use it.
• Convert empty MBR to GPT disk, and vice versa.
• Convert empty dynamic disk to basic disk.

To answer your question, once you have erased the Linux partition, the Boot Manager should not prompt you to choose which OS to be use in booting. Otherwise, we strongly suggest doing a Windows 10 clean install.

If you have other concerns, don't hesitate to get back to us.

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
How do I unlock the drive where Windows 10 is installed?

 

Windows 7 booting off wrong drive?!?!?

Please move if this is in the wrong place.

I have two hard drives, a 1.5TB drive, and a 160GB drive. Windows is installed on the 1.5TB drive, as are all my files and programs. The 160GB drive has a bunch of old files, and apparently the bootmgr and boot folder. Nothing else is on the 160GB drive, other than media files etc.

If I remove the 160GB drive from the machine, windows refuses to boot, plug it back in, it works fine. The setup with two hard drives I have now is temporary, as the 160GB drive will go into another machine.

My question is, can someone give me a step by step on how to make windows force to boot off the 1.5TB drive, ignoring the 160GB drive in the boot process completely?
I don't know how to do this in Windows 7, on XP I would just run the /fixmbr command and its related ones.

Any help would be appreciated.

Note: I would really really rather not have to wipe and reinstall, I know it can be done without one as I've had this issue with XP before.