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Re: hope someone can help with this weird problem

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On 5/01/2025 7:01 pm, MightyMouse wrote:
> 
> I had just setup a new PC (software files, etc, ), and it was running 
> perfectly, so I thought I better do a backup in case something goes 
> wrong. I used Acronis, and the backup completed successfully, but I 
> validated it anyway, but when I put the original drive back in the PC, 
> it wont boot into windows. the message I get is something like "insert 
> bootable media and press a key".  after much stuffing around I 
> discovered that the drive will boot if I have the drive I saved the 
> image to. ??? all I can think is that somehow the boot information got 
> put onto the backup drive, but I have no idea why. here's what the 
> drives look like in Disk Management
> 
> https://auslink.info/pics/diskman.jpg
> 
> and here's the contents of the backup drive..
> 
> https://auslink.info/pics/drive.png
> 
> (there are no hidden files on it)
> 
> If I can't get this fixed I will have to setup the PC all over again!  :(
> 
> ........................................................................
> 
> PC is Asus B550M-K, AMD Ryzen 5 5500, 16 Gb RAM
> 
> -- 
> Have a nice day!..
> stay sane, be happy, and enjoy living.
> 
I would have expected that there would be a EFI system partition

https://imgur.com/a/Mrdj5LD

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Re: hope someone can help with this weird problem Keithr0 <nothing.to.see@here.com.au> - 2025-01-06 13:21 +1000
  Re: hope someone can help with this weird problem not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-01-07 07:35 +1000
  Re: hope someone can help with this weird problem MightyMouse <"squeak!"@thecheesefactory.com> - 2025-01-07 15:10 +1100

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