MBR2GPT: Wrong boot partition count, expected 1 but found 0 

Cannot open BCD for boot volume. Error: 0xC000000F

You are a real life saver! The second issue was my problem, spent hours researching this and all it took was this video!

Thank you so much for this simply and technical explication. I can upgrade to W11 now

This was spot on. Had the system files on another disk for some reason. Appreciate the depth here much respect, thank you!

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I'm so confused. I removed the other drives I had plugged in, just in case, I setup a partition, BCD shows on it, it's active - but now I have zero other drives except Disk 0 and I'm still getting the error. It should, by all seeming rights, be working. 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info MBR2GPT was explicitly asked to run in full OS mode. 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info MBR2GPT: Attempting to validate disk 0 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info MBR2GPT: Retrieving layout of disk 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info MBR2GPT: Initial partition information 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info =========================================================== 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Partition layout for disk: 0 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Partition style : MBR 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info MBR signature: 3120339896 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Number of partitions : 2 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info ===================PARTITION=============================== 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Number: 1 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Type: 7 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Boot: No 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Recognized: Yes 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Style: 0 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Offset: 1048576 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Length: 999128301568 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Volume: \\?\Volume{#}\ 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Drive: C:\ 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info NT Path: \Device\HardDisk0\Partition1 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info ===================PARTITION=============================== 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Number: 2 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Type: 7 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Boot: No 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Recognized: Yes 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Style: 0 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Offset: 999129350144 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Length: 1072693248 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Volume: \\?\Volume{#}\ 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info Drive: None 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info NT Path: \Device\HardDisk0\Partition2 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info =========================================================== 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info ESP partition size will be 104857600 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Info MBR2GPT: Validating layout, disk sector size is: 512 bytes 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Error ValidateLayout: Wrong boot partition count, expected 1 but found 0. 2021-10-14 02:18:49, Error Disk layout validation failed for disk 0

Thanks for the simple explanations. Thousands of other articles, none have this detail. I'm in a situation like your first scenario. Question (I'm hoping you can help with): Could I shrink the existing partition on the data disk, create a boot partition on it, convert and then revert my boot partition back? Without a restart, preferably?

Still doesnt work. I tried everything. Can you give me a contact maybe you can help me?

Thank you! This video has everything I needed to fix my HDs/SSDs to upgrade to Win 11.

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Can u make video on how to disable $MFT files to shrink volume

AMAZING i was loosing my mind going through so many videos and realised you had the answer for me within the first few seconds of the video, i was starting to be convinced i would not be able to convert my disk, thanks bro

What happend for the 100mb efi and 50mb? Can update windows 11 for those 2 partition or if I update my os to win11 automatically direct to drive C all my files? Thanks and respect for beginners.. 🥺

Hi, I was shrinking my C volume and halfway I had power outage so my laptop went off. When power came back ON I started my computer, everything seemed normal and my C drive showed same memory space available as it had before I tried shrinking it the first time but when I tried to continue shrinking my C volume I got this error "There is not enough space available to complete this operation." I have 416GB available and I want to shrink out 120GB

I want to say thank you, you're the only one I found that helped me!

Thank you! I do have one question. After I have made the system partition file and inactivated the older one, will this affect booting into Windows? Do I need to change anything in the BIOS for it to successfully boot after the restart or will it boot into Windows like normal?

Hi, I only have 1 HDD in my pc and this what happens when i tried to shrink it, i dont know if it's safe to proceed "The operation you selected will convert the selected basic disk..."

Dear please help..when we right click on desktop and go into new, there's no excel shortcut there just like new folder, text, word etc... How to fix this.. I tried so many videos to edit regedit but nothing worked...will resetting the registry resolve the issue and how to reset this??

bro where is the disk 1 and disk 2 not work

This was sooooo helpful. Thank you a lot, good man

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I got "couldnt find partition after doing all thag.

Excellent guidance and explanation. Thanks.

Finally able to convert MBR to GPT! Lets go!!!!

Hello, I have a problem with GPT, how can I contact you please

I did something wrong i rebooted my pc and now it says "reboot and select proper boot device" can someone help?

please make a tutorial video about How to Create a Universal Windows 10 and 11 AIO Installation in one single Wim file? thnx

I've been looking for this for 2 days! Thank you so much my issue was the boot and system were on two different drives. This worked great. No more errors!

THANK YOU SO MUCH I HAD SO MANY ISSUES TRYING TO CONVERT I DOWNLOADED SO MANY SOFTWARES. Now i can enable secure boot and upgrade to win 11 LOL!!

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Great video, couldn't thank you enough! One small thing for the second method: In my case, I also needed to set the newly created partition E as active, which was as simple as right-clicking it and then selecting "Mark Partition as Active"

thank a ton for the fix ! one question, i now have a system reserved partition that has appeared, is it safe to remove? it's not empty but i can't see anything inside, it also belongs to the disk without the OS installation (disk 0)

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I fuckin love you man it worked

When i try to validate it says “Failed to retrieve geometry for the disk

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After all the scouring in forums, this is what did it for me. Thank You! subbed.

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wow this is the best tuturial ever, thank you for your time man. Looking forward for more good computer tutorials

I lost my hp factory os partition (D) help me sir please how i get lost hp factory os partition

Thanks a lot I was trying to enable resizable bar and this video was a lifesaver

i'm converting my system disk with a third party application from mbr to gpt, it's said that the operation 100% successful, then I changed the bios to uefi mode. but when I reboot the laptop, it won't start the windows. please help me what to do

thank you very much!!!!now i can install windows 11

Hi I did all your instructions and everything worked perfectly. Now I have some questions, how do you delete de boot partition we created to run mbr2gpt? do we have to clear it first? and secondly, do we have to reactivate the partition using diskpart? what would be the command for it? thanks!

Awesome, that's what I needed, thanks a lot!

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