Windows 10: Reinstalling Win-10 GPT issue

Hello,

On my laptop, got the infinite loop Startup Repair and did not get a response to the following post that I created:
NDIS.SYS Error 0xc000000f; Loop Startup Repair - Windows 10 Forums

Now, I'm trying to re-install Win-10 on the same partition as I had initially and hoping to keep 2 Data Partitions as is i.e. not do a complete re-format, so that my data partitions remain as is.

However, I get the following error when I select C: to be install partition:
"The partitions on the disk selected for installation are not in the recommended order. For additional information about installing to GPT disks go to MS website ....... ".

Please help.

Thanks,

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How to restore or convert an mbr system image to gpt format

Hi,

Are you talking about TWO instances of Win 10 running, or are you wanting to overwrite the Win 10 GPT partition with the MBR Image ?...

Loading the MBR image onto the GPT partition might work without any issues, but there may be some... The GPT installation probably uses a EFI partition and "Windows Boot Manager" to boot... the MBR installation does not...

If it does not, a Startup Repair may resolve the problem...

I have had mixed success switching between MBR and GPT installations of Win 10...

Depending on how you created the System Image, it may refuse to load onto a GPT drive... The Windows imaging method is pretty finicky about stuff like that...

 

Windows 10 crashing

Any way I'm. Reinstalling win 8.1 pro now.

Si how to convert Mbr to gpt.

in cmd

 

I would recommend you make a bootable USB flash drive or DVD of Kyhi's Recovery Tools:
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk - Windows 10 Forums

Boot the computer from it.
Using the disk partitioning program included in it, delete every partition on the drive except for the data partitions that you want to keep. Move the data partitions to the very end of the drive (all the way to the right). You should be left with unallocated space in the front of the drive followed by data partitions at the end.

While you are still in Kyhi's recovery drive, insert the Windows 10 installation USB flash drive or DVD. You can remove Kyhi's recovery tools if you need to - the flash drive or DVD is not required once the computer has booted into Kyhi's recovery drive. While still in Kyhi's recovery tools, run setup.exe from the Windows 10 installation USB flash drive or DVD. Select the custom install option. Select the unallocated space to install Windows 10 to and click Next. Let Windows create the partitions it wants to run and it will not affect the data partitions at the end of the drive.

 

Since I have a Win-10 USB, I think I can use your 'cool trick'by copying just the boot.wim file to the USB drive. Do I need to download the whole 1 GB or is there a way to get just this boot.wim file to replace the one in Win-10 USB?

Also, how do I ensure that my data partitions are at the end, right now they do not seem to be?

Can I perhaps try to repair the damage again with this? I've tried, unsuccessfully, to repair from Windows-10 repair disk.
Thanks for your assistance in this.

 

You have to download the whole ISO file, but the boot.wim file is about 850 MB of it. You will use the partitioning program on Khyhi's Recovery tools to actually move yout data partitions to the end of the disk.

Something you can try from Khyhi's Recovery tools is open Macrium Reflect and under the restore menu is an utility to Fix Windows Startup Problems.

 

I used Reflect as well and tried to fix Windows Boot Issues but still no luck.
Am getting less hopeful of fixing the issue, seems that I'll need to re-install the OS afresh unless you have some other suggestion

Thanks again,

 

No more suggestions, sorry.

 

An install normally will not be able to remove and recreate all the critical partitions. So you normally need to remove those an leave it an unallocated space.

For a Legacy install, possibly a System Reserved and OS partition are involved. For a UEFI, a Recovery, EFI System, MSR and OS.

You should be able to create unallocated space in front of your Data partitions.

 

Create a bootable UEFI Windows 10 USB Flash Drive with Rufus in my signature.
Boot into Setup (Bios) go to the Security tab, if Safe Boot is Enabled, disable it or choose Setup Mode. Go to the Boot tab, move your USB Flash drive to first Boot Device Save and Exit
Boot off of the Windows 10 installer, choose your Language, then Install, on where to install Windows, in Drive Options, Delete the partitions in front (left) of the DATA partitions you want to keep so all the space up to this point is Unallocated Space. Select this area and go next Windows will create the partitions it needs, format them NTFS during the install of Windows and leave the other partitions.
Be sure to backup your data partitions first in case any thing goes wrong.

 

Thanks for your help.

Used Kyhi's Recovery Tools, copied over the boot.wim file to Win-10 install USB drive, removed all partitions other than my data (of course before that I used Reflect to make an image of the 2 data partitions as well as C: drive).

Then reinstalled Win-10 and now need to install all other software.

Quick question:
I made an image of C: before reinstalling and would like to get some files off of that. I think I can create another partition on my drive, restore this C:\ image to that new partition, grab the files I need and then delete the partition. Is there something that I need to look out for other than having the partition size a bit larger than image?

 

If the image was created using Macrium. No need to do all that, just double click on the .mrimg backup image to mount it as a virtual drive and select options as shown. Open file explorer then open the virtual C drive, use drag and drop to copy what you need.

 

Great, Thanks will do that.

Though still surprised as to what could have led Win-10 to cause such havoc as I mentioned in:
On my laptop, got the infinite loop Startup Repair and did not get a response to the following post that I created:
NDIS.SYS Error 0xc000000f; Loop Startup Repair - Windows 10 Forums

 

I believe the NDIS.sys driver is related to networking. I will look to see if I can find out exactly what it does unless someone else knows.

Since it is a system file it would seem to be related to something related to what it is doing. The Event Viewer should have given you a warning problems were occurring unless it was directly related to some update.

I would disconnect any network access and turn off any networking devices in the bios, Wi-Fi, Ethernet and PXE . Disconnect any external devices also and then see if anything changes. Folks in the forums are having problems with all sorts of networking situations... really hard to know what might be effecting you.

If you aren't offered Recovery Options and can't get it out of the loop you have to try an external version of recovery media. If you have tried that with no progress you may have to do something drastic to try to break the loop.

 

Thank you for looking into this.

I had to do something drastic - reinstall OS and all programs to fix this issue