DosProbie Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I must have missed it somewhere then that Noel needed UEFI booting and not bios booting.. ~DP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I must have missed it somewhere then that Noel needed UEFI booting and not bios booting.. ~DP8.1x64 should mean (mainly) UEFI but Windows 8/8.1 install DVD's have BOTH modes, point is that if you install from DVD after having booted from the "wrong" mode it won't work correctly:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825112.aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn293283.aspxand I believe that the same applies to "Recovery".In any case there are three possible choices, and limiting to one is not IMHO "smart". jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DosProbie Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 All good points Jaclaz, and if you want to check which mode then you can always run msinfo32 and check if Bios mode is legacy or uefi. ~DP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) Sorry I haven't been able to concentrate here, guys. I only need BIOS booting. But a general purpose recovery disc is of course more flexible. At this point after having only a few more minutes to look into this, I am not at all certain that I have a valid recovery USB drive (shows you shouldn't assume anything). I couldn't get it to boot - it booted from the system volume on the SSD array regardless of whether I enabled the USB for booting and the boot order I set in the BIOS. Seems to me I had some trouble when I originally set things up as well, but I didn't write down what I had to do to get it to work at the time. I think it was a matter of disabling something in the BIOS temporarily. It will come to me I'm sure when I get a chance again to poke around in the BIOS screens. I am going to switch over to doing this research using my WIn 8.1 VM I think, then when the dust settles and I have something to test I'll go back to doing it on the real hardware. -Noel Edited June 23, 2014 by NoelC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryTri Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Maybe it is intended to boot in EFI mode? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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