The first one will give you (2) standard USB-type ports, the 2nd will give you 3. If you use all (3) ports and one of them is a USB-powered CD/DVD reader, you may have a power problem. If the reader is self-powered (w/adapter) you should have no problems. The other thing is the device's BiOS. Look carefully at its SETUP capability to make sure you can deal with UEFI/non-UEFI BOOT media and possibly turning OFF/ON Secure Boot. I ran into a boatload of probs dealing with a Samsung W8 tablet that, basically, had almost NO BiOS options... it was very hard to work with. Check with Brian_K to find out if IFW Recovery Media can be used with UEFI/SecureBoot, non-SecureBoot and Legacy/MBR systems... I don't know off hand.
I just looked at the User Manual and I see no mention of a BIOS or how to access it. I contacted ASUS Support and asked them.
TheKid7, We have three Asus VivoTab 810C tablets. The similarities with your unit are... 32-bit Win 8.1 installed in UEFI mode Atom processor 2 GB RAM I like our tablets and I'm not trying to talk you out of the tablet. But a few things to know.. My Atom processor does not support Linux so IFL doesn't boot. I use TBWinRE/PE. I don't know if your Atom processor supports Linux. TRF has supplied info on a micro USB adapter. You can do restores with IFW in TBWinRE/PE. You can do partitioning with TBOSDT for BootIt in TBWinRE/PE. I deleted the Asus Recovery partition, resized Win8.1 smaller and created a Data partition. But I have a 64 GB drive. I have two USB ports but I could get by with one. Boot TBWinRE/PE. When IFW has loaded remove the UFD (IFW runs in RAM) and plug in your external HD. Use the On Screen Keyboard or Touch. The partitions are interesting. ESP, Recovery, Win8.1, Asus Recovery. There is no MSR in my VivoTabs. Check this with TBOSDT in Windows. Edit... I access the BIOS with F2 or Delete. I access the boot Menu with F8. Some Asus computers use Esc to access the Boot Menu or BIOS. Edit... My VivoTabs only boot in UEFI mode, not MBR mode, so BIBM and IFD can't be used.
The one I referred to would only allow an UEFI-enabled media (CD/DVD or UFD). The one thing it did support was the Enable/Disable of Secure Boot. To be honest, I actually hate the thing It uses an Atom processor, dual processor hyper threaded at 1.6ghz (turbo to 1.8ghz). I thought it would be pretty swift but I think it's been hamstrung by the selected FLASH they used for their main storage. I find its main volume (FLASH) buried at 100% utilization a lot of the time and the amount of actual READ/WRITE activity is pretty small. Maybe its approaching its NAND end-of-life... I have no idea. It just really sucks.
Hi Brian today i restored an w8.1 Image created 10 days ago with the settings "Write Changed Sectors Only" with image for windows 2.90 (w8.1 winpe based ) and when i rebboted my windows 8.1 crashed , it start to boot after it blocked with an error 0xc000021a i had to restore the image again without Write Changed Sectors Only , it works now
mantra, I've never had an issue with "Write Changed Sectors Only". The latest IFW is ver 2.97, ver 2.90 is superseded but I don't know if that is the answer. Why don't you try it with ver 2.97.
hi there is no change (bug fixed) about Write Changed Sectors Only from 2.90 to 2.97 and there is not bug related in the history or? i got this error can you please investigate in this situation ? thanks Brian https://neosmart.net/wiki/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/10/0xC000021A-windows-8-8-1.png
hi but why does not it boot ? and gave me this error to fix it , i restored with Write Changed Sectors Only Disabled thanks
hi updated to the last version , create winpe 8.1 , restore with Write Changed Sectors Only , same issue when i restore w8.1 no problems with w7
Thanks for trying. I don't know why it fails. I see you have posted in the TeraByte forum. Let's hope we get a quick answer.
Run chkdsk on your Win8.1 disk and see if there is a problem with the HDD itself. Or use CrystalDiskinfo to check hte SMART status of your HDD.
Brian , 1)i reset a solid disk with the tool or parted magic 2) to restore an image , should i enable set as active ? can Not find restore disk siganture ? in short after a reset what option should i enable? thanks
mantra, What sort of image do you have? Single partition, multiple partition, entire drive? Which OS?
So each SSD has a System Reserved Partition and an OS? How have you imaged each SSD? Partition images or Entire Drive images? (The restore options are different)
yes , each ssd has a system reserved and os when i create the image, i selected backup and the drive and checked all on, so i selected the all disk , the disk by the way Brian seems that Write Changed Sectors Only doesn't work with some drive
mantra, I have to pin you down as I don't understand what type of backup has been created. In IFW, on the "Select the hard drive or partitions to backup" screen, which boxes have been ticked? Do you have a solid or a greyed out tick in the HD 0 box?
Hi Brian Write Changed Sectors Only Dos not work with some SSD the drives that support DRAT (Deterministic read after TRIM) work with Write Changed Sectors Only i have 3 samsung 840 , 840 evo , 850 how can i know which drives support (Deterministic read after TRIM)
mantra, Thanks. Entire Drive image backups/restore. I like them as they are the easiest to work with. For the Entire Drive Restore, in IFW Settings (first screen), make sure you have a tick in Automatic Boot Partition Update. In Options you only need a tick in Log Results to File. Validate is optional. You will see First Track Sectors is AUTO (on the right side of the screen) and that is how it should be. Questions? Interesting about DRAT. I was unfamiliar with it.
hi Brian does an entrire drive backup restore the disk signature , the boot strap and set it to active? in case i have created a backup of a partition with os , what do i need to enable? thanks can you please investigate ? because seeing the option Write Changed Sectors Only work with drivers the support such features thanks Brian
