Miss Sophie wrote:
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> On details it shows "Free: 59 MB, Used: 40 MB".
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What numbers do you see for the OS partition in Win10 Disk Management?
BIU: "Add to Boot Menu" greyed out
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Re: BIU: "Add to Boot Menu" greyed out
Hi Brian K,
thank you for your reply. And sorry for my late response: I didn't see that there's now a page 2.
In the meantime I contacted the support from Asus and they described me a way to create a new EFI-partition by "diskpart clear all". That was the hard way, but it worked.
Now I did the copy and changing in thsi way you described in your post before. It worked, too and now I have two entries in the BIU boot selection window. This an additional (manual) way to create a new entry in the BIU boot selection window. I appreciate it & say a very big "thank you for your help"!!!
Cheers,
Miss Sophie
thank you for your reply. And sorry for my late response: I didn't see that there's now a page 2.
In the meantime I contacted the support from Asus and they described me a way to create a new EFI-partition by "diskpart clear all". That was the hard way, but it worked.
Now I did the copy and changing in thsi way you described in your post before. It worked, too and now I have two entries in the BIU boot selection window. This an additional (manual) way to create a new entry in the BIU boot selection window. I appreciate it & say a very big "thank you for your help"!!!
Cheers,
Miss Sophie
Re: BIU: "Add to Boot Menu" greyed out
Miss Sophie,
Is "Add to Boot Menu" still greyed out in your new OS installation?
Is "Add to Boot Menu" still greyed out in your new OS installation?
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Re: BIU: "Add to Boot Menu" greyed out
Dear Brian,
again sorry for my late response: the "Add to Boot Menu" is now not greyed out.
I saw your reply as I'm now looking for the solution of a new problem: I can save the changes when doing your way of adding a new partition:
Edit the new Boot Item to change the Identity
Confirm the new Boot File path includes Microsoft.002
Do a BCD Edit on Microsoft.002 --> I can't save the changes I made due to "read only". Why can this happen? When creating the backup-file, I ticked the "create new UID" - may this the reason for the read-only-problem?
Just for your info: I don't have very often time to look and check changes as I'm not always at home (and my family won't have access to my company-PC). So it may take a time to answer (as you may now realize it): the next time will be next Saturday to try and test any changes.
Cheers
Miss Sophie
again sorry for my late response: the "Add to Boot Menu" is now not greyed out.
I saw your reply as I'm now looking for the solution of a new problem: I can save the changes when doing your way of adding a new partition:
Edit the new Boot Item to change the Identity
Confirm the new Boot File path includes Microsoft.002
Do a BCD Edit on Microsoft.002 --> I can't save the changes I made due to "read only". Why can this happen? When creating the backup-file, I ticked the "create new UID" - may this the reason for the read-only-problem?
Just for your info: I don't have very often time to look and check changes as I'm not always at home (and my family won't have access to my company-PC). So it may take a time to answer (as you may now realize it): the next time will be next Saturday to try and test any changes.
Cheers
Miss Sophie
Re: BIU: "Add to Boot Menu" greyed out
I'm not sure why you are seeing "read only" or "create new UID"
I suggest you delete the Win10 copied partition and its Boot Item. Then copy the Win10 partition in Partition Work using "Add to Boot Menu".
I suggest you delete the Win10 copied partition and its Boot Item. Then copy the Win10 partition in Partition Work using "Add to Boot Menu".
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Re: BIU: "Add to Boot Menu" greyed out
Dear Brian,
thank you for your reply.
RO or create new UID appears when backing up the partition, not when restoring. I
I'm using BIBM and earlier versions for maintainig my HDD/SSD and creating backups. Now I'm, having problems to understand how GPT and BIU are working together: you'll see in my earlier posts I "reconfigured" my SSD with the EFI-partition on it in this way, that it was found by the UEFI-BIOS but without any boot-option. So I resetted the EFI partition with DISM and reinstalled Win10. Then I restored the WIN10-backup-file. And then I tried to clone, duplicate, restore and whatever the backup-file to have an identical partition. You helped me a lot to reach this goal!
Nevertheless I found a way to clone my partition: in the image backup & restore part I copied (forth tick-box) the current partition to clone to a new partition and ticked the update to the boot.ini. This cloned it.
Now I'm havíng 3 partitions with 4 EFI-entries. One of my next step is to delete the unused EFI-entry - and see what will happen. If I'm right, then the PC will worked as configured. If not - ok, then I will have something again to investigate, understand & learn It still remains a thrill to understand a new PC-system, the UEFI-structure & work and the software which supports me (or not)
Maybe I found the reason why the update Boot.ini-option was greyed out. In the manual I found: "Automatic Boot Partition Update – If this option is enabled, Image for Windows will automatically update the boot partition (including an EFI system partition) when a full drive image is restored. When enabled, the Update Boot Partition option will not be displayed when restoring a full drive image."
Cheers
Miss Sophie
thank you for your reply.
RO or create new UID appears when backing up the partition, not when restoring. I
I'm using BIBM and earlier versions for maintainig my HDD/SSD and creating backups. Now I'm, having problems to understand how GPT and BIU are working together: you'll see in my earlier posts I "reconfigured" my SSD with the EFI-partition on it in this way, that it was found by the UEFI-BIOS but without any boot-option. So I resetted the EFI partition with DISM and reinstalled Win10. Then I restored the WIN10-backup-file. And then I tried to clone, duplicate, restore and whatever the backup-file to have an identical partition. You helped me a lot to reach this goal!
Nevertheless I found a way to clone my partition: in the image backup & restore part I copied (forth tick-box) the current partition to clone to a new partition and ticked the update to the boot.ini. This cloned it.
Now I'm havíng 3 partitions with 4 EFI-entries. One of my next step is to delete the unused EFI-entry - and see what will happen. If I'm right, then the PC will worked as configured. If not - ok, then I will have something again to investigate, understand & learn It still remains a thrill to understand a new PC-system, the UEFI-structure & work and the software which supports me (or not)
Maybe I found the reason why the update Boot.ini-option was greyed out. In the manual I found: "Automatic Boot Partition Update – If this option is enabled, Image for Windows will automatically update the boot partition (including an EFI system partition) when a full drive image is restored. When enabled, the Update Boot Partition option will not be displayed when restoring a full drive image."
Cheers
Miss Sophie
Re: BIU: "Add to Boot Menu" greyed out
Unfortunately I'm having the same problem with BIU 1.13. "Add to Boot Menu" is greyed out. Also in my case none of the 3 conditions mentioned by TeraByte Support here below is true.
TeraByte Support wrote:
> It's greyed out if:
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> 1) In setup mode (booted from boot disk)
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> 2) BIU is not set to manage the EFI System partition (bit 55 not set)
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> 3) The file system is not seen as a know NTFS or exFAT type. Is it
> encrypted? You may have to manually add to the boot item.
I'm not sure how to fix this because what Miss Sophie wrote here below scares me a bit.
Miss Sophie wrote:
> In the meantime I contacted the support from Asus and they described me a
> way to create a new EFI-partition by "diskpart clear all". That
> was the hard way, but it worked.
TeraByte Support wrote:
> It's greyed out if:
>
> 1) In setup mode (booted from boot disk)
>
> 2) BIU is not set to manage the EFI System partition (bit 55 not set)
>
> 3) The file system is not seen as a know NTFS or exFAT type. Is it
> encrypted? You may have to manually add to the boot item.
I'm not sure how to fix this because what Miss Sophie wrote here below scares me a bit.
Miss Sophie wrote:
> In the meantime I contacted the support from Asus and they described me a
> way to create a new EFI-partition by "diskpart clear all". That
> was the hard way, but it worked.
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Re: BIU: "Add to Boot Menu" greyed out
What do all your partitions look like in partition work, including
properties of each, also what "details" button reports for each.
On 12/8/2019 10:13 AM, AGH1965 wrote:
> Unfortunately I'm having the same problem with BIU 1.13. "Add to Boot Menu" is greyed out. Also in my case none of the 3 conditions mentioned by TeraByte Support here below is true.
>
> TeraByte Support wrote:
>> It's greyed out if:
>>
>> 1) In setup mode (booted from boot disk)
>>
>> 2) BIU is not set to manage the EFI System partition (bit 55 not set)
>>
>> 3) The file system is not seen as a know NTFS or exFAT type. Is it
>> encrypted? You may have to manually add to the boot item.
>
>
> I'm not sure how to fix this because what Miss Sophie wrote here below scares me a bit.
>
> Miss Sophie wrote:
>> In the meantime I contacted the support from Asus and they described me a
>> way to create a new EFI-partition by "diskpart clear all". That
>> was the hard way, but it worked.
>
>
properties of each, also what "details" button reports for each.
On 12/8/2019 10:13 AM, AGH1965 wrote:
> Unfortunately I'm having the same problem with BIU 1.13. "Add to Boot Menu" is greyed out. Also in my case none of the 3 conditions mentioned by TeraByte Support here below is true.
>
> TeraByte Support wrote:
>> It's greyed out if:
>>
>> 1) In setup mode (booted from boot disk)
>>
>> 2) BIU is not set to manage the EFI System partition (bit 55 not set)
>>
>> 3) The file system is not seen as a know NTFS or exFAT type. Is it
>> encrypted? You may have to manually add to the boot item.
>
>
> I'm not sure how to fix this because what Miss Sophie wrote here below scares me a bit.
>
> Miss Sophie wrote:
>> In the meantime I contacted the support from Asus and they described me a
>> way to create a new EFI-partition by "diskpart clear all". That
>> was the hard way, but it worked.
>
>
Re: BIU: "Add to Boot Menu" greyed out
TeraByte Support wrote:
> What do all your partitions look like in partition work, including
> properties of each, also what "details" button reports for each.
Sorry, I can't answer that question anymore. I removed all partitions and after that I installed BIU again. Now "Add to Boot Menu" works fine. Thanks for the support though.
> What do all your partitions look like in partition work, including
> properties of each, also what "details" button reports for each.
Sorry, I can't answer that question anymore. I removed all partitions and after that I installed BIU again. Now "Add to Boot Menu" works fine. Thanks for the support though.