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MDT – Failure (5616) 31: Verify BCDBootEX

June 12, 2021January 24, 2023 Kent ChenMicrosoft

I was deploying a new Windows 10 installation on an old box via MDT the other day and it was failed. A quick Google search tells me that this is something to do with UEFI boot. It makes sense since it’s an old box. So, I created another sequence that only formats and prepares the disk for BIOS legacy boot […]

How To P2V Windows Server 2012 with UEFI and a GPT Disk

March 13, 2016January 24, 2023 Kent ChenMicrosoft

If you try to run a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine with UEFI, you’ll receive the error “There is no BCD boot device found in the source machine, noticing that the conversion of an EFI boot machine is currently not supported.” In this article, I’ll show you how to bypass that error by converting the […]