Windows 10: I am unable to Enable Windows RE after using MBR2GPT successfully.

I checked and found winre.wim was missing. Retrieved a copy from my Win10 DVD install.wim file. Copied it and reagent.xml files into my System 32 Recovery folder and tried again. Still failed, this time with 3bc3 code. I am stuck and not sure what to do now. I tried to upload screenshots from disk manager and command line but I can't make it work sorry!. Here is data from reagentc /infoWindows RE status: DisabledWindows RE loaction:BCD identifier: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000000Recovery Image location:Recovery image index: 0Custom image location: custom image indes: 0Disk Manager

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Can't boot after running mbr2gpt

Hello all. I was recently working on upgrading one of my workstations from Window 10 to Windows 11. The first step should have been making a backup, but of course I skipped that. I ran mbr2gpt /validate - Validation completed successfully Then I ran mbr2gpt /validate /allowFullOS - Validation completed successfully Finally I ran mbr2gpt /convert and here is what it kicked out: MBR2GPT: Attempting to validate disk 0 MBR2GPT: Retrieving layout of diskMBR2GPT: MBR2GPT: Validating layout, disk sector size is: 512 bytes MBR2GPT: Trying to shrink the OS partition MBR2GPT: Creating the EFI system partition MBR2GPT: Installing the new boot files MBR2GPT: Performing the layout conversion MBR2GPT: Migrating default boot entry MBR2GPT: Adding recovery boot entry MBR2GPT: Fixing drive letter mapping MBR2GPT: Conversion completed successfully Call WinReReapir to repair WinRE MBR2GPT: Failed to update ReAgent.xml, please try to manually disable and enable WinRE. MBR2GPT: Before the new system can boot properly you need to switch the firmware to boot to UEFI mode! I then went into the bios and changed to UEFI and enabled Secure Boot but Windows was unable to boot. I attepted startup repair - no luck. I then tried to start with a Windows 10 install disk. When I did this, I was unable to see the drives. I then changed back from UEFI to Legacy and started up with the Windows 10 install disk. Now I could see the disks. I ran chkdsk /r and then rebooted Instead of Windows loading, I'm getting a softthings technologies display that shows when the drive was erased (from before we purchased it). Strange. Just as an FYI - it shows this data if it is helpful Dell Precision 5820 Tower NVMe PC601 NVMe SK hynix 512 GB - 476.94 GB - NVME ( - MBR) NVMe Micron 2200S NvMe 1024GB - 953.87 GB - NVME( - MBR) [] - 0.00 GB - Unknown (C - MBR) As I'm writing this, I'm running clonezilla to backup the data from the drive. This thread appears to be identical to my issue: Need Help with MBR2GPT But the issue is, if I'm stil in UEFI, I can run reagentc /info BUT I can't run the following: reagentc /disable reagentc /enable I've still got about 30 minutes left before my backups are done but would love to get your feedback. Thanks in advance!

 

MBR2GPT

Hi,

Can you run

reagentc /info

in a command prompt?

seems like you recovery environment might be disabled/missing

if so successfully running

reagentc /enable

should get the mbr2gpt to work again

 

MBR2GPT

Hi y'all,

I just got new GPU and wanna enable Rebar and I need drives to be GPT and MBR2GPT tool isn't working and yes I tried reinstalling windows didn't work.

Here is error:
MBR2GPT: Attempting to validate disk 2
MBR2GPT: Retrieving layout of disk
MBR2GPT: Validating layout, disk sector size is: 512 bytes
Disk layout validation failed for disk 2