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
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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