That way I don't have to mess around with bootable USB sticks or bootable DVD's which are a PITA. I wanted to use the smaller Backup O/S w/o all the extra 'stuff' which wouldn't be needed if the Main ...

Rufus is a free, portable utility that creates bootable USB flash drives from ISO files. As of 2026, the latest version is Rufus 4.13 — and it’s faster and more capable than ever, with built-in ...

The error Unrecognized partition found, index 1 disk layout validation failed occurs while converting MBR to GPT. This article lists the reasons and fixes for this error.

I have a 2TB MBR drive w/ W7 in the 1st partition. Partitions 2 & 3 are used as separate storage. I want to xfer all of that to a 4TB GPT drive including resizing the 2nd & 3rd partitions. Most of ...