How to move Windows from MBR partition to GPT?

Question

Windows

There is a computer from which it is necessary to transfer Windows to another computer. On the source computer, Windows is installed in legacy mode, the target computer does not support this mode, it only supports UEFI (damn the one who invented it). Actually, the standard backup and restore that I have always used does not help - Windows does not want to restore a system image to UEFI that was created from a machine that uses BIOS. How can I transfer Windows? Never dealt with UEFI before.

Answer 1

- Easy to move
- Difficult to load
- Theoretically, you can roll Windows of the same edition on the target machine, roll all the updates. then roll the image of the partition only with Windows with Acronis (without touching the hidden partitions) in the universal restore mode (upd as Yan reminded , do not forget to convert the partition type
- or master sysprep generalize
.. but for everyone who makes backups of everything valuable, it's easier to reinstall the system .. therefore, do not expect reliable manuals.the script is not popular in principle

Answer 2

1) Install bare Windows on the target system.
2) From the source machine, use the image to throw ONLY the C: drive (disk partition) over the old one.