Unable to boot from any external drive
I have used Clonezilla on external hard drives for create image backup, 1stly using Gparted i create 2 partition on external hard disk, 1st one for Clonezilla live boot 300mb FAT32 and the rest NTSF partition to store the images. To install Clonezilla i use Tuxboot. And then restart my pc and boot from the Clonezilla partition then make drive image & store it on NTSF partition. I have used this method on other Windows operating system also like Windows XP, Windows 7/8, Win 8.1, Vista and Windows 10. I purchased WD External hard drive, everything goes fine but drive not boot to Clonezilla. Only message shows is that no operating system was found. I format and re-installed various Clonezilla version but no solution found. i also run WD diagnostic. How to solve this?
Solution:
↣ If you are going to boot via Gparted, you have to convert BIOS installation to UEFI.
↣ Steps to convert Windows BIOS installation to UEFI
- You have to create a system repair disc
- Choose disk which you want to convert
- Download GPTGEN. This will allows you to convert MBR disc to GPT.
- You were unable to boot your system until the completion of this process.
- When download finished unzip it. And run command prompt and type as below
gptgen.exe -w \\.\physicaldrive0
- Boot with windows installation
- Choose preference and language settings and select Repair your system > Troubleshoot > Adv. option > Command Prompt
- A disk partition is required, create boot partition, type on CMD disk port
- Locate Windows from boot disk with typing below list disk
- After that select disk (replace correct number) select disk 0
- Verify partition
- list partitions
- Delete old system partition
- select partition 1
- delete partition
- Create a new boot partition
create partition EFI size=100 offset=1
format quick fs=fat32 label=” System “
assign letter=S
create partition msr size=128 offset=103424
- Exit from the diskpart
exit
- Create boot partition data, replace c: with the letter of Windows install (c is by default)
- After all, this, restart your computer
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