BootIt UEFI: inconsistent driver numbers and cannot backup
Posted: Sat May 11, 2019 12:15 am
I installed BIU on a machine with an OS (linux) already installed. (Incidentally, I have tried installing several times such installing BIU first, then the OS, but always encounter a problem. What I describe below is the attempt that has come closest to being successful.)
BIU recognized the OS and placed it into the boot menu. I can boot the OS successfully. I have not tried to do anything else except backup the OS. The backup fails with "a read error occurred while accessing the drive."
I have posted this in the bootit collection forum rather than the image forum because it may be possible the backup fails because of some problem in BIU.
I am trying to backup the EFI and OS partitions on the SSD to an NTFS partition on an HDD. BIU is installed in the EFI partition and I elected to have it manage the boot files.
What I noticed is that the partition-work utility and the boot editor within BIU both report the HDD as "Hard Drive 0" (or HD0) and the SSD as "Hard Drive 1" (HD1) but the backup utility shows the SSD as Hard Drive 0 and the HDD as Hard Drive 1. Perhaps this is normal.
When I try to do the backup, I elect options as follows:
Backup -> Full Backup -> Physical Drive -> from Hard Drive 0 (the SSD) -> all partitions -> Single File Set -> File (Direct) -> Physical Drive -> to Hard Drive 1 -> "A read error occurred while accessing the drive."
Apparently the error occurs with the HDD because I do not see the next screen that would allow me to specify in which partition to write the backup file. I am able to open a file on the HDD partition with the text editor. I am also able to boot IFL (64-bit) and backup the SSD to the HDD.
I did not find a similar problem reported elsewhere so I posted this. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on what may be causing the problem or how to overcome it?
BIU recognized the OS and placed it into the boot menu. I can boot the OS successfully. I have not tried to do anything else except backup the OS. The backup fails with "a read error occurred while accessing the drive."
I have posted this in the bootit collection forum rather than the image forum because it may be possible the backup fails because of some problem in BIU.
I am trying to backup the EFI and OS partitions on the SSD to an NTFS partition on an HDD. BIU is installed in the EFI partition and I elected to have it manage the boot files.
What I noticed is that the partition-work utility and the boot editor within BIU both report the HDD as "Hard Drive 0" (or HD0) and the SSD as "Hard Drive 1" (HD1) but the backup utility shows the SSD as Hard Drive 0 and the HDD as Hard Drive 1. Perhaps this is normal.
When I try to do the backup, I elect options as follows:
Backup -> Full Backup -> Physical Drive -> from Hard Drive 0 (the SSD) -> all partitions -> Single File Set -> File (Direct) -> Physical Drive -> to Hard Drive 1 -> "A read error occurred while accessing the drive."
Apparently the error occurs with the HDD because I do not see the next screen that would allow me to specify in which partition to write the backup file. I am able to open a file on the HDD partition with the text editor. I am also able to boot IFL (64-bit) and backup the SSD to the HDD.
I did not find a similar problem reported elsewhere so I posted this. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on what may be causing the problem or how to overcome it?