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Hello

I have a Windows 7 (64 bit) PC with UEFI Bios and GUID partition table (GPT).
I was trying to create a USB boot 'disk' to load IFD (v2.75) to make the image of my drive(s) before I start installing any software.
So far no success. Am I doing something wrong or that is not supported (it is listing EFI starting 2.74).
If it's not suported, will IFW 'do the trick'?

Thanks

Check the boot settings in the bios to see what device boots
first. I guess that is what you mean by IFD won't load?

The usual setting on a new computer seems to be the C drive.
Mary

On 10/24/2012 6:58 PM, jjl wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a Windows 7 (64 bit) PC with UEFI Bios and GUID partition table (GPT).
> I was trying to create a USB boot 'disk' to load IFD (v2.75) to make the image of my drive(s) before I start installing any software.
> So far no success. Am I doing something wrong or that is not supported (it is listing EFI starting 2.74).
> If it's not suported, will IFW 'do the trick'?
>
> Thanks
>
>

I am forcing USB (UEFI USB, tried non UEFI USB as well) to be the first boot device.
Most of the times it will just blink and continue with Windows load.
Occasionally I might get 'Invalid partition table' and 'remove' to load messages.

Is there a special process to create a bootable USB for UEFI bios?
Should I choose UEFI USB or 'plain' USB an device as my boot from device?
Any other bios settings need to be adjusted?

I was searching trough KB but I couldn't find anything.

Thanks

In the included IFD help file, it states a limit of 64GB on flash drive size if using the included makedisk.exe.
Also, note that some USB flash drives aren't as bootable as others. Try several, and vary the settings within makedisk until you find what works for you.
Info in help file starts at page 12....also read page 20.

Finally, depending on the BIOS you're using, as it boots up you may have an option of selecting the preferred boot device, some BIOS' use F10.
Otherwise set your boot order within your BIOS to include USB

jjl wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a Windows 7 (64 bit) PC with UEFI Bios and GUID partition table
> (GPT).
> I was trying to create a USB boot 'disk' to load IFD (v2.75) to make the
> image of my drive(s) before I start installing any software.
> So far no success. Am I doing something wrong or that is not supported (it
> is listing EFI starting 2.74).
> If it's not suported, will IFW 'do the trick'?
>
> Thanks

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:58:08 PDT, just as I was about to take a herb,
jjl disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>I was trying to create a USB boot 'disk' to load IFD (v2.75) to make the image of my drive(s) before I start installing any software.
>So far no success.

I was having MANY problems with USB sticks (mainly installing Linux
distros) and can across a tip that solved them all - make sure the USB
stick is formatted FAT32. May help you.
--

Cheers

DrT
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It has to be able to boot non UEFI USB and depending on the BIOS, if you
create it unpartitioned, it may not be available unless you choose USB
Floppy booting. Best thing is to bring up the BBS menu to select the
specific device to boot from, if it doesn't show, then it may be that you
have to adjust the USB device boot type (floppy vs zip vs hd).

"jjl" wrote in message news:3582@public.image...

I am forcing USB (UEFI USB, tried non UEFI USB as well) to be the first boot
device.
Most of the times it will just blink and continue with Windows load.
Occasionally I might get 'Invalid partition table' and 'remove' to load
messages.

Is there a special process to create a bootable USB for UEFI bios?
Should I choose UEFI USB or 'plain' USB an device as my boot from device?
Any other bios settings need to be adjusted?

I was searching trough KB but I couldn't find anything.

Thanks

Finally got the time to try the suggestions...
Initially I was using USB 2.0 drive capacity 256MB (same one I was using without any issues on old computer and laptop.
But no matter what I tried IFD always formatted it to FAT (I knew EFI require FAT32) - after re-reading the manual
I 've learned that I need a bigger capacity USB for FAT32.
So today I cleared up 8GB USB, recreated bootable IFD 2.76 USB (Partition/Default) and I was able to boot from it by
selecting (non UEFI) USB drive from BIOS.
Since the amount of space needed for IFD, 8GB USB is kind of waste, it would be nice if there is an
option, given on creation of bootable USB, of FAT or FAT32 file system regardless of USB size.

Thanks to all of you who took the time to reply to my questions.