BIOS Reset after restore
Hi,
I have been using True image for years, and never had any problem. I used true image either from within windows (to make backup) or booting on the usb stick (to restore).
Recently I though it would be great not to need the USB stick. I tried to activate "startup recovery manager" but did not work. So I created a 500mb partition, and copied the files from the usb (linux version of true image, not windows PE) to this partition and added an EFI entry pointing to the bootx64.efi in the EFI folder of this partition (using easyEFI). It worked without any problem, I manage to boot true image from that partition and restore my OS (C drive).
HOWEVER: after the restore was completed, the laptop rebooted, and went straight into the bios. In the bios, the HDD was showing, but the EFI entries (e.g. windows boot manager) were not showing. I then rebooted a number of time, but each time it went straight into the bios and I could not get pasted that. I then turned off the laptop (full power off), waited a bit, and started it again. It took a good 2 minutes as the laptop did a cmos clear. After that, my bios was back to factory default, and the standard efi entries (e.g. windows boot manager) were showing again.
Is this a one off? No. I tried again to restore a different backup, and same thing happened. If I restore the same backup using the USB, it works fine.
Any idea why this is happening? Is it because the 500mb partition (with true image) is on the same disk as the C partition I am restoring?
Thanks


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I concur with Bobbo here. Without a standard UEFI manufacturers are free to roll their own UEFI flavors. As a result some will work fine while others not so much!
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