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0 time to press DEL, just like the link I posted said
The EFI partition will look like this: Google Image Result
Don't change BIOS to UEFI if you don't have that or the PC won't boot.
0 time to press DEL, just like the link I posted said
The EFI partition will look like this: Google Image Result
Don't change BIOS to UEFI if you don't have that or the PC won't boot.
To boot from a USB you launch the boot menu. On an ASUS MB you press F8 during POST
M A Weiss, you did not mentioned what you're trying to achieve.
Are you trying to convert your Legacy-MBR into UEFI-GPT?
Please post a Disk Manager image so we can see what you have.
How to Post a Screenshot of Disk Management
Whole image and don't forget to expand the columns so we can read them.
My goal presently is to make sure that the system can be booted in a recovery mode should I need to restore a system image.
EFI would be a slight security enhancement for this web server, but it's not my priority now. I do remember converting my desktop PC to UEFI some years ago, but forgot how I did it.
Pressing F8 usually invokes the Windows boot menu. But what about during POST? On the Dell server this replaced, I think it was F12 that opened the boot menu during POST. I will have to experiment with that. I could not find any BIOS options that point to what key to press. It should be possible to tell the system to boot to memory stick, or a USB DVD ROM drive with just a keyboard command during POST. But important to me is to be able to get the Windows Image Restore option during bootup.
This is a snapshot of my disc management console:
I looked at my main Windows 10 desktop computer just now and I see it has a 100MB EFI partition, but also a 549MB System Reserved partition. On the Kingdel web server, there is only a 49MB System Reserved partition as you can see above.
Kingdel is MBR/Legacy and not UEFI then.
Okay, as for your System Restore questions, System Restore is disabled by default, so turn it on, create a restore point, and check WinRE again ....... hopefully it's there ...... System Restore Windows 10
I enabled system restore, but upon shutting down with the Shift key to get to the recovery startup, I still get the same limited options. There's no system image restore option.
I also tried shutting down and then powering up and hitting F8 continuously, but it booted right to Windows--no boot selection options.
Although the server is working now, I'm concerned that if something breaks, I will not be able to go into the recovery boot mode to load the backup image.
Post the disk manager image, whole Window. Please. How much free space you have on C:
I don't see the recovery partition.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
reagentc /info
Post the results here
I was doing some research and I suspect this is my problem:
I think this has to do with installing Macrium Reflect Free Ed, upon advise of someone when I could not back up windows image earlier. How can I restore this Win PE environment so I can get into recovery?
C:\windows\system32>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Disabled
Windows RE location:
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 2a1fd003-18bf-11ea-8cda-c8b657ee22f1
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
C:\windows\system32>reagentc /enable
REAGENTC.EXE: The Windows RE image was not found.
C:\windows\system32>
Please post a Disk Manager image so we can see what you have.
How to Post a Screenshot of Disk Management
Whole image and don't forget to expand the columns so we can read them.
Please run:
Tuneup_plus_log.bat ─ Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.
DiskParInfo.bat - Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.
V2: BSOD - Posting Instructions
Download and install: Everything
voidtools
Launch the software and search for: winre.wim
Post images or share links of the search results