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August 3rd, 2015 06:00
System Image Restore EFI vs BIOS
Hi,
When I bought my Windows 7 Pro Vostro 3560 I was never able to get the Dell Backup software to create system restore disks despite NUMEROUS calls and e-mails with Tech Support. Since I was able to get a Windows System Image to work I was advised that this would be sufficient. Now (unfortunately after warranty expired) I need to restore that image. I boot to the Windows 7 Repair Disk on DVD and it finds the image, but I get the following error: "Windows cannot restore a system image to a computer that has different firmware. The system image was created on a computer using EFI and this computer is using BIOS." I get this error from a System Image that was created originally, and one that was created a few days ago.
Does anyone know how to boot into EFI to run the Repair?
Thanks,
ArJayEff
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ArJayEff
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August 5th, 2015 05:00
Hi,
Obviously no reply but I found the answer myself. Because I kept tripping over others with the same problem on Google I'll provide the detail below.
The issue was as stated in the error message - the system I imaged was EFI, but because the Windows 7 Repair disk was not bootable into EFI the System Image Recovery would not work. In order to get it to boot I needed create a EFI bootable version. I did it using a USB drive following the instructions at http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/15458-uefi-bootable-usb-flash-drive-create-windows.html and the free Rufus utility from https://rufus.akeo.ie. Because I had an ISO of a Windows 7 install DVD, I used that and its the Repair option to restore the system image rather than a Windows 7 Repair CD. If I didn't have the install ISO I would probably have converted the Repair CD to an ISO and used that as the source for the Rufus tool.
ArJayEff