I just had to do a DR restore of a Dell R420 UEFI Running 2008R2 Standard as a DC.<\/p>\n
I created a new VM.<\/p>\n
Added my VHD files of the OS partition from the 2008r2 backup along with any other required partitions\/vhds.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Edit the OS VHD and expand the size by 1GB.<\/p>\n
Attach the 2008r2 install media to the dvd.<\/p>\n
Boot the Vm to the DVD.<\/p>\n
Get to the command prompt and do the following:<\/p>\n
Run diskpart<\/p>\n
Select disk 0<\/p>\n
create part pri<\/p>\n
select the new partition<\/p>\n
format fs=ntfs<\/p>\n
active<\/p>\n
assign letter to the new partition<\/p>\n
exit diskpart<\/p>\n
mkdir XX:\\BOOT<\/p>\n
bcdedit \/createstore XX:\\BOOT\\BCD
\nbootrec \/fixmbr
\nbootrec \/fixboot
\nbootrec \/rebuildbcd
\nbcdboot c:\\windows \/s XX:<\/p>\n
regedit and load the system hive from the OS partition.<\/p>\n
under HKLM\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Services make the startup entries for the the following items<\/p>\n
ALIIDE 3
\namdide 3
\natapi 0
\ncmdide 3
\niastorv 3
\nintelide 0
\nmsahci 3
\npciide 3
\nviaide 3<\/p>\n
Also under mountmgr set\u00a0noautomount to 0<\/p>\n
unload the hive.<\/p>\n
restart the VM and Voila …. it is now bootable as an MBR partition<\/p>\n
make sure to change your drive letters back to what the were originally in the OS as well as removing the drive letter from the boot partition.<\/p>\n
Hope this helps someone…took me a while to get a workaround. \u00a0Our physical box was water damaged and we needed to have this OS up as a VM. \u00a0I know there are tools to capture an image to vhd which will convert the EFI to MBR , but if the physical machine is down and all you have is the image from WinBackup…..we must make do with what we have….<\/p>\n
Doug Cohen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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