TeraByte Unlimited

Hi Imagers,

I received a new HP computer with Win10. I was able to boot to IFL after making some BIOS changes(secure disk disabled/legacy enabled). The computer has never been started, that is, its never reached the Win10 OS. Its virgin from the factory. I imaged the entire drive. IFL Displayed a list of the entire drive contents and its partitions as such:

[ ] DRIVE 953870MiB ENTIRE DRIVE
[ ] SYSTEM **ACTIVE**(01) 360MiB EFI SYSTEM
[ ] MICROSOFT RESERVERD PARTITION(02) 128MiB GPT ENTRY
[ ] WINDOWS PARTITION(03) 102400MiB HPFS/NTFS
[ ] WINRE PARTITION(04) 848MiB HPFS/NTFS
[ ] RECOVER IMAGE PARTITION(05) 19232MiB HPFS/NTFS

The image went well. However after looking at each partition with TBIView I received this message when attempting to view
the MICROSOFT RESERVERD PARTITION(02) 128MiB GPT ENTRY partition:
"Unable to mount the image.
Common reasons: dirty file system, incorrect partition file system
identifier, unsupported file system, or an error occurred."

So, I am asking if you experienced imager's can confirm that that image is not viewable in TBIView because its GPT?
Also, will that partition image restore OK in this state?

I think everything if fine but I've not seen this before because my machines were MBR.

Thanks for your thoughts!

The MRP won't be able to be mounted.

The way to check your image is to use verify byte for byte on creation, or
validate operation afterwards.

You shouldn't have to disable secure boot or need legacy boot (for UEFI you
typically want to choose the "partition" option when creating the UFD since
it works automatically with more BIOSes whereas non-partitioned, some
require you pressing a key, going to find the file, and booting from it).

"rks" wrote in message news:[email protected]...

Hi Imagers,

I received a new HP computer with Win10. I was able to boot to IFL after
making some BIOS changes(secure disk disabled/legacy enabled). The computer
has never been started, that is, its never reached the Win10 OS. Its virgin
from the factory. I imaged the entire drive. IFL Displayed a list of the
entire drive contents and its partitions as such:

[ ] DRIVE 953870MiB ENTIRE DRIVE
[ ] SYSTEM **ACTIVE**(01) 360MiB EFI SYSTEM
[ ] MICROSOFT RESERVERD PARTITION(02) 128MiB GPT ENTRY
[ ] WINDOWS PARTITION(03) 102400MiB HPFS/NTFS
[ ] WINRE PARTITION(04) 848MiB HPFS/NTFS
[ ] RECOVER IMAGE PARTITION(05) 19232MiB HPFS/NTFS

The image went well. However after looking at each partition with TBIView I
received this message when attempting to view
the MICROSOFT RESERVERD PARTITION(02) 128MiB GPT ENTRY partition:
"Unable to mount the image.
Common reasons: dirty file system, incorrect partition file system
identifier, unsupported file system, or an error occurred."

So, I am asking if you experienced imager's can confirm that that image is
not viewable in TBIView because its GPT?
Also, will that partition image restore OK in this state?

I think everything if fine but I've not seen this before because my machines
were MBR.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Thank you very much TBS! I did have the image validate set and there were no problems reported. I'll look back and tinker with the booting process. I was just glad to get it to boot to IFL. I used the MBR UEFI BOOT partition option in make disk. As well as the GPT UEFI System Partition(which didn't boot). I'll try some different things and see how they go.