if i convert a MBR drive to GPT, will the data on it be preserved?

[The Original Ralph]

I'm trying to do a "Fred Flintstone" upgrade to Win 7 Ultimate from 7 Home premium on my PCIe drives - but what i'm going to do is upgrade a backup Sata drive (that's i've got a clone of the PCIe's 7 Home Premium on.

Problem is, the win 7 ultimate upgrade won't install on the drive because it's set to GPT partition

just trying to saving myself loosing some time

tks

 

[Lutfij]

There are apps that will allow you to do so. EASEUS claim thy can do it.

 

[The Original Ralph]

i',m run easeus for my backups as well as their partition manager
i'll take a look

tks for the heads up

 

[The Original Ralph]

WORKED like a charm in EaseUS Partition Manager

tried it on the back up clone i want to use to install win 7 ultimate upgrade to, and it booted fine after the partition to MBR conversion

so i'm assuming it'll work in reverse

 

[The Original Ralph]

not sure what's going on, had an email that a Paul NZ had posted a questions, but i don't see his post here

in case, yes mobo is UEFI

 

[The Original Ralph]

got to love windows - the windows 7 ultimate upgrade had installed the other day fine, the after downloading a ton of windows updates, had one or two left and it crashed the system giving me a redbox error message on boot that "firmware or hardware has been changed..."

okay, got the system up and running on a backup clone disk that had a copy of the original win 7 home premium that i had upgraded on the samsung NVMe PCIe SSD - tried to re-install the upgrade and get the error message the "disk is partitioned GPT and must be MBR partitioned for installation". Okay, so i partition it to MBR and on the next attempt to installi get the message, "cannot install to this disk, it is partitioned MBR and must be GPT for a UEFI platform".

Why do i get the sense MS is doing all it can to push me to windows 10