I thought I posted this thread.... but cannot find mine, so writing again.
Info:
Bought a new P9X79Pro MB with UEFI. Updated the Bios to the most recent and converted everything with the .CAP extension. Bios and MB working fine with Windows 7 Pro in my new system; I am using it right now for this post.
I am running GPT Partition Tables (NTFS) and using the AHCI bios settings. Installed the latest drivers available, including those from Intel for the chipset. Also, have 16GB DDR3 @ 2133. Current speed is about 3.8 ghz.
I recently re-installed my Seagate Disk Wizard by Acronis.... to make my backups using the disc image tool. I have done this for 10 years with Seagate and always worked fine... ((((until now))).
What I discovered and my Problems:
What I did find was that if I had "ANY" other device set to boot first except my Hard Drive (UEFI) with Windows Boot Manager, the computer would not boot correctly.
Normally a computer will boot in the sequence given to it in the BIOS..... ie. floppy, cd drom, hard drive, etc.....
I made my Boot Seq set to: 1) DVD/CD, 2) USB Floppy, 3) Hard Drive with Windows 7 on it, it does (((NOT))) work. I hear the USB floppy drive momentarily function but when it passes it off to the hard drive to boot, it fails to do so.... says:
It cannot find the device, Reboot and select a proper boot device or insert boot media and press a key.
Any boot sequence OTHER than the Hard drive (Win Boot Mgr) being FIRST causes the computer to fail to run and I get an error message.
I went back into my bios and tried changing my AHCI config back to a IDE for my SATA drive. This made no difference... so it was not an issue of the SATA HD being set to IDE or AHCI.
If I set the Boot Sequence to: 1). Hard Drive (my Win7 boot mgr on it) First, it will boot normally and run.
When I run the Acronis Disc Image program it runs normally in windows as it has done in the past years. The computer then shuts down and restarts (which is normal) , and it SHOULD begin the backup process - but if fails and due to the failure it is passed off back to Windows 7 and I get my log in screen upon booting.
The Acronis backup program creates a "Boot Manager" and makes it the First Device to boot (once the software is started) but won't work because of the boot sequence issue, so it skips the backup and passes off to the Windows Boot Manager and runs Windows 7.
I have heard others having a similar issue, and writing to ASUS got me no help in solving the problem. The response from them was to select F8 during the boot and choose a booting device... this does not work; again, unless the Windows Boot Mgr on the HD is first, it will do nothing.
Someone commented on possibly relating to the Windows Boot Manager being in the board's NVRAM. Said something about the Windows Installer putting an EFI entry into the NVRAM on the motherboard so the UEFI can look for the GPT disk to find Windows Boot Loader to run.
I am not a programmer and this is all fine....... but how do we fix this problem with the ASUS board. Is it an ASUS issue, or is it really a Microsoft Windows issue for the way they designed their program.
My other non-UEFI computers worked with Windows 7 and Acronis, and never had this problem. All I want to do is make a bootable "clone disc" of my system should my hard drive fail. I can then just swap drives and boot back to my Win 7. With this new UEFI setup, it does not work anymore.
I am new here and hope this makes sense.........pls help !!!
nh19926@ymail.com
Info:
Bought a new P9X79Pro MB with UEFI. Updated the Bios to the most recent and converted everything with the .CAP extension. Bios and MB working fine with Windows 7 Pro in my new system; I am using it right now for this post.
I am running GPT Partition Tables (NTFS) and using the AHCI bios settings. Installed the latest drivers available, including those from Intel for the chipset. Also, have 16GB DDR3 @ 2133. Current speed is about 3.8 ghz.
I recently re-installed my Seagate Disk Wizard by Acronis.... to make my backups using the disc image tool. I have done this for 10 years with Seagate and always worked fine... ((((until now))).
What I discovered and my Problems:
What I did find was that if I had "ANY" other device set to boot first except my Hard Drive (UEFI) with Windows Boot Manager, the computer would not boot correctly.
Normally a computer will boot in the sequence given to it in the BIOS..... ie. floppy, cd drom, hard drive, etc.....
I made my Boot Seq set to: 1) DVD/CD, 2) USB Floppy, 3) Hard Drive with Windows 7 on it, it does (((NOT))) work. I hear the USB floppy drive momentarily function but when it passes it off to the hard drive to boot, it fails to do so.... says:
It cannot find the device, Reboot and select a proper boot device or insert boot media and press a key.
Any boot sequence OTHER than the Hard drive (Win Boot Mgr) being FIRST causes the computer to fail to run and I get an error message.
I went back into my bios and tried changing my AHCI config back to a IDE for my SATA drive. This made no difference... so it was not an issue of the SATA HD being set to IDE or AHCI.
If I set the Boot Sequence to: 1). Hard Drive (my Win7 boot mgr on it) First, it will boot normally and run.
When I run the Acronis Disc Image program it runs normally in windows as it has done in the past years. The computer then shuts down and restarts (which is normal) , and it SHOULD begin the backup process - but if fails and due to the failure it is passed off back to Windows 7 and I get my log in screen upon booting.
The Acronis backup program creates a "Boot Manager" and makes it the First Device to boot (once the software is started) but won't work because of the boot sequence issue, so it skips the backup and passes off to the Windows Boot Manager and runs Windows 7.
I have heard others having a similar issue, and writing to ASUS got me no help in solving the problem. The response from them was to select F8 during the boot and choose a booting device... this does not work; again, unless the Windows Boot Mgr on the HD is first, it will do nothing.
Someone commented on possibly relating to the Windows Boot Manager being in the board's NVRAM. Said something about the Windows Installer putting an EFI entry into the NVRAM on the motherboard so the UEFI can look for the GPT disk to find Windows Boot Loader to run.
I am not a programmer and this is all fine....... but how do we fix this problem with the ASUS board. Is it an ASUS issue, or is it really a Microsoft Windows issue for the way they designed their program.
My other non-UEFI computers worked with Windows 7 and Acronis, and never had this problem. All I want to do is make a bootable "clone disc" of my system should my hard drive fail. I can then just swap drives and boot back to my Win 7. With this new UEFI setup, it does not work anymore.
I am new here and hope this makes sense.........pls help !!!
nh19926@ymail.com
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