ohio_grad_06
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So as the title says, I'm curious if anyone knows any imaging program that can boot a system with a UEFI bios. Have a client with a failing drive in his laptop, and at this point I've just replaced the drive and done a Nuke and Pave.
I had used backupper as I've had good luck with it before, and had read that it was ok to use for commercial use according to what I'd seen on their website as well. Tried to boot the system, no dice. I disabled Secureboot/UEFI, booted, was able to successfully create an image of the drive, so I've got the data. But made the image, replaced drive, dropped the image back onto the new drive, re-enabled Secureboot/UEFI, system would not boot. I pulled out my handy Windows 8.1 install disc, booted the computer with that thinking I'll run startup repair, no dice. It attempts repair, but then fails and won't allow me to proceed.
I attempted to do a refresh, but got the message stating "The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again"
Tried to run BCDboot repair commands I found online but could not get it working that way. Not sure how to get the drive unlocked except for formatting it or destroying the partition table, which would effectively format it. I ended up just simply blowing the new drive I'd put in away and reformatted, but just wondering if there are any other tools I need to be looking at or did I do something wrong? With Windows 7 this was so much easier, just clone it, drop the image on the new drive, run startup repair and done. Or drive to drive copy with ddrescue. Which I read may not work since they weren't sure ddrescue could see gpt disks.
Would I be better off I wonder in the future to simply set up a workstation and just simply leave the side off of it and have 3-4 power cables and sata cables hanging out and just try to do the clone disk to disk directly without having to worry as much about UEFI and all that hopefully?
I had used backupper as I've had good luck with it before, and had read that it was ok to use for commercial use according to what I'd seen on their website as well. Tried to boot the system, no dice. I disabled Secureboot/UEFI, booted, was able to successfully create an image of the drive, so I've got the data. But made the image, replaced drive, dropped the image back onto the new drive, re-enabled Secureboot/UEFI, system would not boot. I pulled out my handy Windows 8.1 install disc, booted the computer with that thinking I'll run startup repair, no dice. It attempts repair, but then fails and won't allow me to proceed.
I attempted to do a refresh, but got the message stating "The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again"
Tried to run BCDboot repair commands I found online but could not get it working that way. Not sure how to get the drive unlocked except for formatting it or destroying the partition table, which would effectively format it. I ended up just simply blowing the new drive I'd put in away and reformatted, but just wondering if there are any other tools I need to be looking at or did I do something wrong? With Windows 7 this was so much easier, just clone it, drop the image on the new drive, run startup repair and done. Or drive to drive copy with ddrescue. Which I read may not work since they weren't sure ddrescue could see gpt disks.
Would I be better off I wonder in the future to simply set up a workstation and just simply leave the side off of it and have 3-4 power cables and sata cables hanging out and just try to do the clone disk to disk directly without having to worry as much about UEFI and all that hopefully?
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