Parallels windows 10 upgrade
It might complain about WinRE or something, but generally, if it says “conversion was a success,” you can type exit and hit return to kill the command prompt and return to the advanced menu It will convert the MBR disk partition scheme to GUID. If there’s a problem, type: mbr2gpt /validate /allowFullOS and hit return.Type: mbr2gpt /validate and hit return this will check your hard disk.Log in with your account and Microsoft password (not your pin).Select Troubleshoot, then Advanced options.While holding down Shift key: Start -> Power -> Restart.Here, with minor edits, for future reference (my future self will be Solution to my Legacy-to-UEFI BIOS migration problem. Users are left to their own, and, luckily, one of them posted the perfect The Parallels personnel there hasĪ long-standing tendency to copy & paste ready-made and irrelevant solutions.
The Parallels forums, a vast ocean of scarcely useful threads from which Not so much its documentation and online support. It showed the BIOS to be of “Legacy” type. Version was being used in my VMs, I used the msinfo32 (System Information)Īpplication. Research revealed that TPM chips only work on UEFI BIOS.
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Windows Update was complaining about the lack of the TPM chip. This weekend assignment was to upgrade a couple of old Windows 10 VMs to ☰ Menu Migrating a Windows 10 VM to Windows 11 in Parallels Desktop: a story of TPM chips and BIOS upgrades