I backed up my entire disk which has 3 partitions using the WinPE disk of IFW 3.03 in UEFI mode. The partitions were: EFI System Swap EXT4 after restoring above to same disk using WinPE again, the disk is not bootable (not showing in bios). The disk had Grub bootloader. Any help?
savalnc, When you restored the image did you use the Automatic Restore Type choice instead of the Normal choice?
savalnc, No, there was a problem with ver 3.03 if you did use the Automatic choice. Do you have IFL and BIBM?
This should work even with a non license for BIBM. Boot IFL and click Partition Work. What partitions do you see in Drive 0? (sda)
It shows the same 3 partitions as above! Any reason why it is not booting if all were restored and even the EFI is marked as **Active**
I can no longer see it as a bootable device, hence un-selectable. the only device I can see and select is the UEFI usb (IFL)
Linux is not booting because the SSD is not seen in the UEFI firmware. Has the M.2 failed? Try reseating the card. IFL can see it because it accesses the drive directly and not through the UEFI firmware.
So what I did is just clean reinstalled the OS and now the drives boots again and is seen by UEFI firmware. So I can assure now that either I made a mistake while restoring or maybe because I backed up in IFW and not IFL originally (assuming it matters being LInux OS)
Good news. So the OS installer saw the drive. I'd try an Entire Drive restore (your same image) using IFL. See if that works.
Will try that later, but I'm a bit afraid it won't work again and I have to reinstall again. You know it is Arch Linux setup, lol. Thanks for help, Brian!
Image your current setup before you restore the old image. Restore with IFL as it accesses the drive directly. As does your Linux. If it fails I suggest contacting TeraByte Support and let them know what happened. Google has lots of threads on disappearing M.2 SSDs.