Upgrade Windows 10 to Windows 11 (Host has Windows 11, the VM has Windows 10)

Roger 1 Reputation point
2023-03-06T17:13:15.5+00:00

Hi,

I have a VM in Hyper-V (Windows 10), and I would like to upgrade it to Windows 11; The host itself already has Windows 11.

In order to upgrade, I know I have to upgrade the virtual machine to level 2, that in turn, needs to change the hard disk from mbr to gpt, but I don't know how to do it in my particular case (please see the attached image with the partition schema)

My Windows partition is the one with 189.35 GB; The "Status" of C: is "Active & System"; For E: is "Boot"partitions

If I try to convert E: to GPT with the command line, it says that it does not meet the requirements; The same happens if I try to convert to gpt having booted from an ISO image containing Minitool bootable partition wizard (the option to do it is greyed out).

Thanks in advance !

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  1. Limitless Technology 44,776 Reputation points
    2023-03-08T09:13:55.7333333+00:00

    Hello

    Thank you for your question and reaching out. I can understand you are having query\issues related to Windows 11 VM.

    Please try to Install Windows 11 VM using below steps mentioned in this article.

    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/how-to-run-a-windows-11-vm-on-hyper-v/ba-p/3713948

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