Thanks. When my friend and I toggled the boot configuration from BIOS to UEFI though, we were confronted with an interface that asked us for some information, but neither one of us has ever seen it before, so we were unsure. It looked like gibberish to us. And this is good; I have a Dell Latitude E6530 running Windows 8.1 as well as a Dell PowerEdge T110 server running Windows server 2008 R2, soon to be Windows Server 2012 Standard; see my YouTube channel for videos on installing and configuring my server. I'm going to do some videos on it pretty soon. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 5:57 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] imaging windows 8 Hi, I have never used these products, however, here is what I know about UEFI: To install Windows in UEFI mode, the BIOS needs to be set to either UEFI mode, or legacy/UEFI mode. Once done, you need to use boot media which is either a CD, or a FAT32 (not NTFS) drive. This drive doesn't need a MBR, it just needs a /EFI directory from the root. Whatever is in there will get used to boot off. Once booted using UEFI mode, you can start Windows setup as normal, and it will install in UEFI mode. That is, changing the disk to GPT format, creating the necessary boot partitions, and installing in UEFI mode. I don't know whether Winstaller has been set up to boot from UEFI, it should work as normal once WinPE is running from the boot drive. Using UEFI on Win8 plus does make the boot process a lot faster, earlier than this though and it won't make much of a difference. It can also really improve boot times on some servers. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: 03 November 2013 20:04 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] imaging windows 8 Speaking of UEFI/GPT, what is the best way to reinstall Windows, using a Winstaller-created image, to switch the boot from Bios to UEFI? I'd like to do that on this computer, but I'm not sure how to go about it. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 1:56 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] imaging windows 8 Hi, Also be aware that these drives may be EFI/GPT disks and so may not restore using conventional imaging software. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Corey Knapp Sent: 03 November 2013 17:13 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] imaging windows 8 Hi Dave, How did you get Image to work from a PE disk? Can you please point me to a link thx. I also have used drive snapshot and that doesn't boot everytime and then I have to restore the mbr for the disk. Thanks, Corey -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 11:23 AM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] imaging windows 8 Hello, I've got a couple of windows 8 boxes I'd like to image. I'm wanting to do a complete image, not just the data, and use it in the future in case of drive hardware failure. My goal take the image, probably from outside of windows itself from talking media? then in the event of hardware failure, buy a new drive, put it in, restore the image, and give the box back to it's owner and go on with things. In the really old days I used to use Ghost from floppy disk and have it run from batch file. I've tried image for windows from a win7PE boot environment and although that worked in creating the image, even put it where I wanted it, it wouldn't boot on restore. Is there a trick to imaging nowadays? Recommendations? Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins