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Want to restore Windows 7 image after installing Windows 8

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I want to restore a Windows 7 image I made before installing Windows 8. I can't get Windows 8 to let me boot from the TI Startup disk. Is it safe to restore the image from the main program in Windows 8? Or better yet does anyone know how to get Windows 8 to allow a boot from the startup disk?
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If you restore the disk image (assuming it is a full disk image, as you did not say), then Windows 8 would be gone and you'd be back to Windows 7.

What version of ATI?

Have you ever booted from the ATI Rescue Media on that PC?

I never could get it to work so I pulled the hard drive and put it in an e-SATA enclosure and restored it using another machine. I think it had to do with Windows 8 using a UEFI virtual bios but I don't know for sure. Possibly a motherboard issue too. Who knows?

Windows 8.1 wouldn't install over Windows 8 and the frustration got the better of me. Windows 7 is up and running great.

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