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So, I have a pile of Acer all in one computers at my place of work. I formatted one last week, turned of Secure Boot and went with a legacy boot to eliminate UEFI challenges during the imaging process.
After getting the source machine configured, I used Aomei backupper 1.1, booted in legacy mode, took an image of my MBR based DISK.
Then, I went into the back, grabbed another Acer All in One, which was still set in UEFI, with Secure Boot and GPT. I configured the BIOS to use BIOS, and disabled Secure Boot. I booted from my Aomei bootable (non-EFI) based USB key. Restored the image that I created above. Machine would not boot
Rebooted off the Windows 8 key, went to repair, advanced and tried the "automatic repair problems causing Windows not to boot option". Machine still wouldn't boot.
Went back into Repair with the Windows 8 key, ran diskpart and it showed that the restored disk was still GPT. So, I did a select disk 0, clean .
Restored my Aomei disk image again. The machine booted right up. No problems.
After getting the source machine configured, I used Aomei backupper 1.1, booted in legacy mode, took an image of my MBR based DISK.
Then, I went into the back, grabbed another Acer All in One, which was still set in UEFI, with Secure Boot and GPT. I configured the BIOS to use BIOS, and disabled Secure Boot. I booted from my Aomei bootable (non-EFI) based USB key. Restored the image that I created above. Machine would not boot
Rebooted off the Windows 8 key, went to repair, advanced and tried the "automatic repair problems causing Windows not to boot option". Machine still wouldn't boot.
Went back into Repair with the Windows 8 key, ran diskpart and it showed that the restored disk was still GPT. So, I did a select disk 0, clean .
Restored my Aomei disk image again. The machine booted right up. No problems.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Self-Built in July 2009
- CPU
- Intel Q9550 2.83Ghz OC'd to 3.40Ghz
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R rev. 1.1, F12 BIOS
- Memory
- 8GB G.Skill PI DDR2-800, 4-4-4-12 timings
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA 1280MB Nvidia GeForce GTX570
- Sound Card
- Realtek ALC899A 8 channel onboard audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 23" Acer x233H
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- Intel X25-M 80GB Gen 2 SSD
Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black, 32MB cache. WD1001FALS
- PSU
- Corsair 620HX modular
- Case
- Antec P182
- Cooling
- stock
- Keyboard
- ABS M1 Mechanical
- Mouse
- Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
- Internet Speed
- 15/2 cable modem
- Other Info
- Windows and Linux enthusiast. Logitech G35 Headset.
