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Trapped in UEFI Boot - A Potential Solution
Win 7, 64 system. Was upgrading from Norton Ghost 15 to Symantec System Recovery - basically Ghost 16.
During the creation of the recovery disk I somehow got a UEFI / EFI partition on my system drive.
Even though the BIOS says "Legacy", the system is booting through the UEFI. Restarting opens a "Windows Boot Manager" each time: white text on black screen. Asks me if I want to Load Windows 7. Counts down from 7 then loads.
The BIOS Boot Sequence shows Legacy, not UEFI. I tried changing from Legacy to UEFI then back to Legacy. Still get the same Windows Boot Manager screen at restart.
Open Disk Manager I can see an EFI partition - 300 Mb.
If I go to C:\Windows\Panther\setupac
2015-01-29 00:15:03, Info IBS Callback_BootEnvironmentDe
2015-01-29 00:15:03, Info IBS Callback_BootEnvironmentDe
So, seems that UEFI is the way this computer will boot.
Only solution I've found so far was here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/33472-63-win7-boot-loader-issues
"...delete the SRD directory and reboot. Since the directory doesn't exist anymore, I was able to select Windows 7 from the boot loader and boot right into windows like normal."
I'm confused. First, I don't know how to delete the SRD directory. More significantly, when I look up the SRD Directory that's the...System Root Directory. Seems like a pretty crucial thing to "delete'. How do you all see it? Do you agree with this strategy?
Or, should I just clean away the UEI partition via this strategy:http://www.howtogeek.com/215349/how-to-remove-an-efi-system-partition-or-gpt-protective-partition-from-a-drive-in-windows/
Seems like the first route, deleting the SRD, if that's one of those self-creating directories, like in Outlook -if there's no data file / null it auto generates - then I can see the logic. And, the suggestion seems to have come FROM Symantec. So, seems trustworthy. But, I am in the dark about what deleting the SRD would cause, or how to do it.
The second route - just eliminating the partition, looks less likely to induce the BSOD.
How do you all see it?
Thanks!!
OT
(Currently downloading Clonezilla :D )
During the creation of the recovery disk I somehow got a UEFI / EFI partition on my system drive.
Even though the BIOS says "Legacy", the system is booting through the UEFI. Restarting opens a "Windows Boot Manager" each time: white text on black screen. Asks me if I want to Load Windows 7. Counts down from 7 then loads.
The BIOS Boot Sequence shows Legacy, not UEFI. I tried changing from Legacy to UEFI then back to Legacy. Still get the same Windows Boot Manager screen at restart.
Open Disk Manager I can see an EFI partition - 300 Mb.
If I go to C:\Windows\Panther\setupac
2015-01-29 00:15:03, Info IBS Callback_BootEnvironmentDe
2015-01-29 00:15:03, Info IBS Callback_BootEnvironmentDe
So, seems that UEFI is the way this computer will boot.
Only solution I've found so far was here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/33472-63-win7-boot-loader-issues
"...delete the SRD directory and reboot. Since the directory doesn't exist anymore, I was able to select Windows 7 from the boot loader and boot right into windows like normal."
I'm confused. First, I don't know how to delete the SRD directory. More significantly, when I look up the SRD Directory that's the...System Root Directory. Seems like a pretty crucial thing to "delete'. How do you all see it? Do you agree with this strategy?
Or, should I just clean away the UEI partition via this strategy:http://www.howtogeek.com/215349/how-to-remove-an-efi-system-partition-or-gpt-protective-partition-from-a-drive-in-windows/
Seems like the first route, deleting the SRD, if that's one of those self-creating directories, like in Outlook -if there's no data file / null it auto generates - then I can see the logic. And, the suggestion seems to have come FROM Symantec. So, seems trustworthy. But, I am in the dark about what deleting the SRD would cause, or how to do it.
The second route - just eliminating the partition, looks less likely to induce the BSOD.
How do you all see it?
Thanks!!
OT
(Currently downloading Clonezilla :D )
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