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Error: Legacy Boot of UEFI Media

I am trying to boot from a USB recovery drive I created using EaseUS ToDo.  However, it is giving me the following error "Error:  Legacy Boot of UEFI Media."  


I have set the boot to UEFI in BIOS.  Where else should the boot type be set to correct this?

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Check if you have to disable or enable secureboot. Also make sure that you have set the boot order so it boots to the USB stick first.

if that does not help, test if your recovery stick boots ok on another pc

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Secureboot does not appear in the BIOS configuration list and in the msconfig file Secureboot is showing that it's "Not Supported."  I don't have another Windows 10 PC to test the recovery stick in.


I've updated the BIOS firmware and the drivers, etc.  The Secureboot option is still not listed. 


Any suggestions?


Thanks.

you can test it with a friends pc - just to see if it boots ok from the stick; it won't change anything

what pc model is this?

you can also post pictures of the bios screen if you want !

What PC make/model is this, or what motherboard? All UEFI BIOS's should also have secure-boot you can enable/disable. On the other hand, if your BIOS doesn't support UEFI, you can't restore an image that was built on an UEFI system to it.

Secure boot is often listed in the security section of the BIOS.

Maybe make some photos of your BIOS & attach them so we get an idea.
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Thanks for your help.  Test the recovery stick and it works.  It just doesn't help with this PC.


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i think you just need tos et the boot priority order to the stick

right now, it points to disk 3

If I'm not mistaken, you can select the EFI files to boot from in you BIOS. You just have to add the boot option & then search for it (in your last picture).
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I noticed the boot priority issue too.  I've added all the variations on boot priority and EFI files possible.  See the pics below.  I don't know how to read the file system list regarding which drives its accessing - pic below shows the three current options. The last picture from a partition manager, shows that the right disk is selected...Ugh


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I'm closing this question.  I found that this PC is older than we had thought and does not have a TPM installed.  We therefore cannot enable it or Secure Boot.  This seems to be the source around the issues I've had with it.  This machine has performed like a champ (a Dell T5600) over the years and it seemed newer than it is.  We therefore proceeded with migrating from MBR to GPT so that we could enable UEFI boot.  In the process, we also changed some partitions on the boot drive which prevented us from restoring it from the backup image we had made just before starting this work.  As we found out though, once you mess with the partitions, Windows is unable to restore the image.


Lessons we had to learn again:  

1. If it ain't broke, don't mess with it.  Don't make changes to a PC because you "think" you can make it work better.  Know what you're doing before doing something to a computer that is functioning fine.

2. Stay current on backing up the PC, make sure that your rescue and recovery disks work (make new ones periodically to keep up with aggregate changes that accumulate), and learn to use a good backup app that includes making a full system clone.

3.  Know how to restore a system BEFORE something happens.

4.  Messing with partitions is almost always a bad idea (see #1 above).

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You have to go into the directories to select the file, but I don't remember the names (it also is different between OS's. You just have to try the different options. If possible I'd also disable Legacy boot. Probably it is in /EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
Windoze 10 doesn't require a TPM chip. Windoze 11 does, but your CPU will be too old to use on your hardware.