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Managing the BMR Operations Menu

The BMR Operations menu consists of the following three types of operations:

Disk Specific Operations:

To perform disk specific operations, select the disk header and click Operations.

Clean Disk

This operation is used to clean all partitions of a disk and is:

  • An alternate method to delete all volumes of a disk. With the Clean Disk operation, you do not have to delete each volume one by one.
  • Used to delete the non-Windows partitions. Due to a VDS limitation, the non-Windows partition cannot be deleted from the UI, but you can use this operation to clean them all.

Note: During BMR, when the destination disk has non-Windows partitions or OEM partitions, you cannot select this partition and delete it from the BMR UI. Usually this would occur if you ever installed Linux/Unix on the destination disk. To resolve this issue, perform one of the following tasks:

  • Select the disk header on the BMR UI, click Operations, and use the Clean Disk operation to erase all partitions on the disk.
  • Open a command prompt and type Diskpart to open the Diskpart command console. Then type "select disk x" , where 'x' is the disk number and "clean" to erase all partitions on the disk.
Convert to MBR

This operation is used to convert a disk to MBR (Master Boot Record). It is available only when the selected disk is a GPT (GUID Partition Table) disk and there are no volumes on this disk.

Convert to GPT

This operation is used to convert a disk to GPT. It is available only when the selected disk is an MBR disk and there are no volumes on this disk.

Convert to Basic

This operation is used to convert a disk to Basic. It is available only when the selected disk is a Dynamic disk and there are no volumes on this disk.

Convert to Dynamic

This operation is used to convert a disk to Dynamic Disk. It is available only when the selected disk is a Basic disk.

Online Disk

This operation is used to bring a disk online. It is available only when the selected disk is in the offline status.

Disk Properties

This operation is used to view detailed disk properties. It is always available and when you select this operation, a Disk Properties dialog appears.

Volume/Partition Specific Operations:

To perform volume/partition operations, select the disk body area and click Operations. From this menu, you can create new partitions to correspond to the disk partitions on the source volume.

Create Primary Partition

This operation is used to create a partition on a basic disk. It is available only when the selected area is an unallocated disk space.

Create Logical Partition

This operation is used to create a logical partition on a basic MBR disk. It is available only when the selected area is an extended partition.

Create Extended Partition

This operation is used to create an extended partition on a basic MBR disk. It is available only when the disk is an MBR disk and the selected area is an unallocated disk space.

Create System Reserved Partition

This operation is used to create the System Reserved Partition on a BIOS firmware system and builds a mapping relationship with the source EFI System Partition. It is only available when you restore a UEFI system to a BIOS system.

Note: If you previously converted from UEFI to a BIOS-compatible system, use the Create System Reserved Partition operation for destination disk resizing.

Create EFI System Partition

This operation is used to create the EFI System Partition on a basic GPT disk. It is available only when the target machine firmware is UEFI and the selected disk is a basic GPT disk.

Note: If you previously converted from BIOS to a UEFI-compatible system, use the Create EFI System Partition operation for destination disk resizing.

Note: Systems that support UEFI also require that the boot partition reside on a GPT (GUID Partition Table) disk. If you are using a MBR (Master Boot Record) disk, you must convert this disk to a GPT disk, and then use the Create EFI System Partition operation for disk resizing.

Resize Volume

This operation is used to resize a volume. It is an alternate method of Windows "Extend Volume/Shrink Volume". It is available only when the selected area is a valid disk partition.

Delete Volume

This operation is used to delete a volume. It is available only when the selected area is a valid volume.

Delete Extended Partition

This operation is used to delete the extended partition. It is available only when the selected area is the extended partition.

Volume Properties

This operation is used to view detailed volume properties. When you select this operation, a Volume Properties dialog appears.

BMR Specific Operations:

These operations are specific to BMR. To perform BMR operations, select the disk header or the disk body area and click Operations.

Map Disk From

This operation is used to build a mapping relationship between the source and target dynamic disks. It is available only when the selected disk is a Dynamic disk.

Note: When mapping to another disk, the capacity of each mapped target volume must be the same size or larger than the corresponding source volume.

Map Volume From

This operation is used to build a mapping relationship between the source and target basic volume. It is available only when the selected volume is a Basic volume.

Note: When mapping to another disk, the capacity of each mapped target volume must be the same size or larger than the corresponding source volume.

Commit

This operation is always available. All of the operations are cached in memory and they do not modify the target disks until you select the Commit operation.

Reset

This operation is always available. The Reset operation is used to relinquish your operations and restore the disk layout to the default status. This operation cleans all of the cached operations. Reset means to reload the source and target disk layout information from the configure file and current OS, and discard any user changed disk layout information.