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  • So a year and a bit later I came back to the problem with more time to sort it out, and succeeded.  The short version is that Recovery was not properly set up, missing both WinRE.wim and once that was copied in, needing to be enabled (using reagentc…
    in MBR to GPT error code 215 Comment by PB442 February 10
  • So, digging into the logs, the  only line I can find that appears to show a problem is:

    [21      ][2023-01-13 01:32:18] disk.cpp(257): Failed to IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY. Disk Index: 1

    Anyone know what that means, and what…
    in MBR to GPT error code 215 Comment by PB442 January 2023
  • AOMEI Parition Assitant Pro detects that the partition is on a SSD and also recommends against defragging a SSD!

    in MBR to GPT error code 215 Comment by PB442 January 2023
  • Thank you for the response.  It would appear AOMEI is assessing my drive as though it uses movable heads to read spinning magnetised platters.  This seems outdated when many system disks these days are SSDs, and most new systems ship with SSDs.
    in MBR to GPT error code 215 Comment by PB442 January 2023
  • Further to my post the logs for mgr2gpt show it fails when it cannot get volume name for the recovery boot entry. See excerpt below, (NB: I have not used the real object ID string below):

    2023-01-08 14:56:07, Info BCD…
    in MBR to GPT error code 215 Comment by PB442 January 2023
  • emoji should be D :  drive designation
    in MBR to GPT error code 215 Comment by PB442 January 2023