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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?
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 !
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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i think you just need tos et the boot priority order to the stick
right now, it points to disk 3
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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).