Computer Techs [Weekly Post] Triumphant Thursday - January 31, 2019 |
- [Weekly Post] Triumphant Thursday - January 31, 2019
- Any tricks for moving a Win 10 installation to a new PC?
- Windows 10 password error
| [Weekly Post] Triumphant Thursday - January 31, 2019 Posted: 31 Jan 2019 02:04 AM PST What have you accomplished this week? What conundrum(s) have you vanquished? [link] [comments]  |
| Any tricks for moving a Win 10 installation to a new PC? Posted: 31 Jan 2019 02:59 PM PST RESOLVED: I will put the solution here in the event someone else comes along with the issue. Turns out that the previous machines, even though they were UEFI enabled, the Windows installation had been configured as Legacy/MBR. I was able to boot up to a preboot environment and then run the Windows utility MBR2GPT to convert the MBR to GPT and allow a UEFI boot to happen. At first it didn't work, just gave me a "validation failed" cryptic error. Then I saw a posting about how you cannot have more than 3 partitions on the existing drive because the utility needs to create an EFI one. So I deleted one of the useless boot diagnostic partitions (was from the old hardware anyway) and then ran MBR2GPT again and it succeed. Popped the drive into the new hardware and Windows was good to go, activated and all. The reason I wasn't able to boot legacy on the new system was because the newest Intel CPUs I read, do not allow booting to legacy anymore, only UEFI. Reinstall nightmare averted. Hopefully this helps someone else. I'm going home. ORIGINAL POST Client had 4 machines (but only 2 different models of machines). Windows 10 seems like the first Windows OS where "most" of the time, you can swap between common hardware and still have it to boot (I know sometimes licenses are a different issue). Anyway, the first two machines which were identical, they went fine. Moved the SSDs from the old to the new, booted up, configured devices, a few updates to do, but all good to go, no problems. The second 2 which are the same models of each other, no go. However it isn't that Windows blue screens or errors, it is that the boot loader never appears to load at all. These are dell machines, and it boot directly into the onboard diagnostics. Even with Windows Boot Manager set as the first (and only) boot device, it ignores it. I am in the process now of trying various BCD edits and boot recoveries, but while I am plugging away at that, I figured maybe someone here might have gone through something like this before. If we get to a point where we have spent a little too much time, clean install is an option, but because of the various software/configs they have, we would much prefer to use the existing drives in the new hardware. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jan 2019 07:34 PM PST So I bought a used pc and it was factory reset and windows reinstalled however when it started back up it requires an admin password and I don't have it. How do I fix it so that I can create my own account and use the pc. [link] [comments]  |
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