I sent my laptop in to Acer for repair. It looks like there might be
UEFI involved.
I booted BIBM and got 100% gibberish. No way to read it at all. I wanted
to repartition.
I then managed to get it to boot into IFL using an SD card for boot.
It is validating that image file now.
I looked in the bios settings and if they did put in UEFI I don't see a
way to turn it off. I haven't seen GPT (?) though.
Will I be able to restore? I had wiped the drive before sending to Acer.
Mary
New motherboard
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mjnelson99
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Re: New motherboard
Acer put in the 100 MB boot partition. My image does not use that.
That is why I wanted to use BIBM to delete that partition.
Can I use IFL to delete it when the restore is finished? Otherwise
Windows probably will not boot.
On 11/4/2014 4:42 PM, MJNelson wrote:
> I sent my laptop in to Acer for repair. It looks like there might be
> UEFI involved.
>
> I booted BIBM and got 100% gibberish. No way to read it at all. I wanted
> to repartition.
>
> I then managed to get it to boot into IFL using an SD card for boot.
> It is validating that image file now.
>
> I looked in the bios settings and if they did put in UEFI I don't see a
> way to turn it off. I haven't seen GPT (?) though.
>
> Will I be able to restore? I had wiped the drive before sending to Acer.
> Mary
>
>
That is why I wanted to use BIBM to delete that partition.
Can I use IFL to delete it when the restore is finished? Otherwise
Windows probably will not boot.
On 11/4/2014 4:42 PM, MJNelson wrote:
> I sent my laptop in to Acer for repair. It looks like there might be
> UEFI involved.
>
> I booted BIBM and got 100% gibberish. No way to read it at all. I wanted
> to repartition.
>
> I then managed to get it to boot into IFL using an SD card for boot.
> It is validating that image file now.
>
> I looked in the bios settings and if they did put in UEFI I don't see a
> way to turn it off. I haven't seen GPT (?) though.
>
> Will I be able to restore? I had wiped the drive before sending to Acer.
> Mary
>
>
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mjnelson99
- Posts: 785
- Joined: Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:24 am
Re: New motherboard
Windows is smarter than I thought. It still booted even before and after
I deleted the 100 mb partition.
I set up a new SD with changed BIBM video settings.
This time I can see stuff!!!
Mary
On 11/4/2014 4:42 PM, MJNelson wrote:
> I sent my laptop in to Acer for repair. It looks like there might be
> UEFI involved.
>
> I booted BIBM and got 100% gibberish. No way to read it at all. I wanted
> to repartition.
>
> I then managed to get it to boot into IFL using an SD card for boot.
> It is validating that image file now.
>
> I looked in the bios settings and if they did put in UEFI I don't see a
> way to turn it off. I haven't seen GPT (?) though.
>
> Will I be able to restore? I had wiped the drive before sending to Acer.
> Mary
>
>
I deleted the 100 mb partition.
I set up a new SD with changed BIBM video settings.
This time I can see stuff!!!
Mary
On 11/4/2014 4:42 PM, MJNelson wrote:
> I sent my laptop in to Acer for repair. It looks like there might be
> UEFI involved.
>
> I booted BIBM and got 100% gibberish. No way to read it at all. I wanted
> to repartition.
>
> I then managed to get it to boot into IFL using an SD card for boot.
> It is validating that image file now.
>
> I looked in the bios settings and if they did put in UEFI I don't see a
> way to turn it off. I haven't seen GPT (?) though.
>
> Will I be able to restore? I had wiped the drive before sending to Acer.
> Mary
>
>