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BootIt UEFI Can a drive be restored to Partition and boot?

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2025 1:13 am
by Ken
Hello, Extremely long term user of TeraByte Products.
I have a laptop with BootIt UEFI installed on a GPT partitioned ssd. When using BootIt UEFI used as recommended I can install Windows 11 and it works properly. I have 3 ssd drives with 3 different operating systems (Win10,Win11 and Ubuntu) with a lot of applications installed that all work flawlessly when installed in the laptop. Is it possible to copy the drives to, or restore a back up to a BootIt UEFI partition on a larger ssd drive and get it all to multi-boot. I would prefer this as opposed to doing a new install of each OS and having to reload the software apps.Can this be done? If it can could somebody explain the procedure. I have read through the documents but cant find anything related. I did this without any problem with BooIt using legacy bios and a mbr partitioned drive.
Thanks KenS

Re: BootIt UEFI Can a drive be restored to Partition and boot?

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:49 pm
by Ken
Found the answer to part of my question.
1 Install BIU on clean hard drive.
2 Copy or restore basic data partition from Win10 to free space.
3 Run the script fixboot.tbs on the Win 10 basic data partition.
4 Create a boot entry with efi boot file path that fixboot displayed.
5 Now it boots.

Have not found the way to make the Ubuntu copy/restore work but will continue working on it,
Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks
KenS

Re: BootIt UEFI Can a drive be restored to Partition and boot?

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2025 1:38 am
by TeraByte Support
you may have to reinstall grub.