Re: [Blind-sysadmins] missmatching mbr and gpt

Hi, The MBR was broken afterwards as well but has been fixed. Now everything works as expected. Greetings and thanks, Simon Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Eigeldinger Informatik Nebengebäude 1, OG1 Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems T: +43 5576 7101-1143 | E: simon.eigeldinger@hohenems.at | www.hohenems.at Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Im Auftrag von Andrew Hodgson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Jänner 2018 19:40 An: Blind sysadmins list Betreff: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] missmatching mbr and gpt Hi, Exactly. It is actually though valid to have a GPT partition in Windows 7 as it supports EFI, but it isn't a common configuration. If I were you I would verify the laptop is booting via mbr and then delete the GPT from the disk. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Eigeldinger Simon Sent: 11 January 2018 14:08 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] missmatching mbr and gpt Hi Andrew, This laptop came with win 10 as far as I know and was downgraded to win 7. Seems the disk wasn't properly whiped. Thanks, Greetings, Simon Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Eigeldinger Informatik Nebengebäude 1, OG1 Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems T: +43 5576 7101-1143 | E: simon.eigeldinger@hohenems.at | www.hohenems.at Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] Im Auftrag von Andrew Hodgson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Jänner 2018 13:11 An: Blind sysadmins list Betreff: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] missmatching mbr and gpt Hi, I saw this when installing Windows 7 on a machine that had Windows 8 on it and in that case I knew the machine was MBR so could fix this. The thing is you really need to know why the GPT partition table may be there in the first place to understand the implication of removing either of the partition tables. Every time I do a new installation like this now I do diskpart clean on the boot volume. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Eigeldinger Simon [simon.eigeldinger@hohenems.at] Sent: 11 January 2018 06:52 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] missmatching mbr and gpt Hi all, I wanted to backup a win 7 64 bit laptop which has been recently been reinstalled. Now clonezilla gives me that error: The selected devices: sda This disk contains mismatched GPT and MBR partition: /dev/sda It will confuse Clonezilla and might make the saved image useless or fail to clo ne the disk. You can use gdisk or sgdisk to fix this issue. E.g. if you are sure only MBR par tition table is the one you want, you can run this command to destroy the GPT pa rtition table while keep the MBR partition table: sudo sgdisk -z /dev/sdx //NOTE// (1) Replace /dev/sdx with the above hard drive name. (2) ALL EXISTING D ATA ON THE DISK WILL BE LOST IF GIVING WRONG COMMAND. USE THIS COMMAND CAREFULLY ! Please fix this issue then restart Clonezilla again. Program terminated!! Press "Enter" to continue...... Is that dangerous when i remove the gpt partition? Has someone done that without any issues? Greetings and thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins