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Boot Loop results after attempt to boot Macrium on USB thumb drive
I downloaded the free Macrium Reflect and with it, on my Win 7 created a USB UEFI bootable media for Windows 10 using the WinPE v10 environment downloaded from MSoft. I started with this in order to support my wife's new Dell Inspiron Win 10 computer. I was set to create my first image. Nothing wrong with the Win 10 computer.
I went into the 'bios' and set it up to recognize the USB drive and set it first in line. It did boot, but something went awry; Macrium looked like two overlapping windows, and there was no mouse - at least no observable cursor. Keyboard also seemed dead. I thought "hmm". I took out the thumb drive and and decided to try adding a usb mouse. However, the thing went to reboot itself and went into auto repair, which failed. I then found myself in a booting loop that I have seen others have found themselves in except: the computer refuses to boot to the Macrium USB stick, or to a AOMEIBackupperStd bootable that I had created. It goes straight to repair and fails again.
I have no idea what went down on this machine. Obviously Macrium created something odd when I made the bootable media, but how or why I do not know. I followed the directions explicitly, and there isn't much room in the setup to mess with anyway. The bios on the Inspiron is completely new to me, and I would appreciate a reference I could go to to learn about it as well as any suggestions of where I should go with what I have in front of me.
Thanx