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Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by Stigg, Apr 15, 2014.

  1. crawfish

    crawfish Registered Member

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    Getting the Bitlocker Recovery screen was an interesting change, but it didn't have any lasting effect. It was cleared, and everything worked normally, when I reset the PC and booted from my hard drive.

    According to this, an MBR drive can be booted on both legacy and UEFI systems as long as they're configured correctly, and MakeDisk apparently does so:

    https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/699894

    "No, that part of the spec only says The boot code on the MBR is not executed by UEFI firmware which means the the 446-byte region in the MBR containing the binary instructions for booting the system won't be run in UEFI mode. It's still possible to boot from an MBR disk in UEFI mode if you create a proper ESP (EFI System Partition) on it. UEFI systems only boot executable images in the ESP. So by putting a proper BIOS boot loader in the MBR and a UEFI boot loader in the ESP you can have a disk that boots in either mode"

    A lot of conflicting information came up when I googled this, but this matches my experience, so I'll go with it. :)

    I still don't understand what 3.64 and 4.06 MakeDisk are doing differently in the "Multi-Partition UEFI GPT" case, where the 3.64 USB was able to boot on my Windows 10 system, while the 4.06 version goes to Bitlocker Recovery. However, as long as MBR mode works in both cases, I guess that's good enough.
     
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  2. Hadron

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    There are plenty of compression options. Which one do you use? :isay:

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    Image for Windows New and Old Corresponding Compression Options
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  3. Mr.X

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  4. Hadron

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  5. Brian K

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    I tried TB - Fastest and ZSTD - Fastest.

    The speed and compression were much the same.
     
  6. Hadron

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    I bought a new monitor for one of my computers, but now when I boot into TBWinPE, it doesn't fill the screen.
    It's in a almost square 4:3 aspect ratio. I always build with a 1024 x 768 32bpp screen setting, and all my computers fill the monitor except for the computer with this new monitor.
    I've tried changing the screen resolution when in TBWinPE, but there is only one higher setting, and it doesn't do anything. When I go back and have a look, it's still on the same setting.

    Any ideas?
     
  7. Brian K

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    I've never touched this. Works on all my monitors. Do you have -m3?

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  8. Hadron

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    Yes, it has -m3.

    The monitor is a MSI PRO MP275 27 Inch with a HDMI connection. Nothing fancy.

    The monitor on my main computer is 27 Inch with a HDMI connection, but I haven't had any problems with it.
     
  9. Hadron

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    I've never used that BCD HIGHESTMODE option before.
    I'm thinking whether that might fix it. But I shouldn't really have to do anything. I've never encountered this before.

    The photo is a bit dark, so I added a couple of red lines to highlight the left and right screen edge.

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    Selecting 1280 x 1024 doesn't work. It just stays on 1024 x 768.

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  10. Brian K

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    Hadron, check the TeraByte forum. I've seen threads about screen resolution but you probably need to create a thread.
     
  11. Hadron

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    Brian, the issue with my new monitor is fixed. It wasn't anything to do with TeraByte products or TBWinPE.
    It was a monitor screen setting. It was set to Auto. The other two options were 4:3 or 16:9. I set it to 16:9, and everything appears okay now. It seems that the Auto screen setting was switching to 4:3 outside of Windows.
    So much for Auto. Thanks for your help.
     
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