EFI or BIOS BOOT Incompatibility


  1. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 Professional
       #1

    EFI or BIOS BOOT Incompatibility


    Trying to restore a Windows 7 image after a boot manager problem

    Rampage IV Formula MB with no hardware or BIOS changes since the creation of the image 9 days ago, but get the following error message.

    "The system image restore failed.
    Windows cannot restore a system image to a computer that has different firmware.
    The system image was created on a Computer using EFI and this computer is using BIOS. "

    Thanks
    Last edited by Brink; 02 Nov 2012 at 11:58. Reason: fixed format
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  2. Posts : 71,980
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #2

    Hello TFCJRMD,

    Sorry, but you cannot restore a system image that was created on a EFI computer to a BIOS computer.

    If you like, you could use the tutorial below to manually extract files from the system image.

    System Image - Extract Files Using Disk Management
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