No Boot Device Available after Image restore
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 8:18 am
Hi
So I have a basic Simple rotation backup schedule in place. I am using the trial version of R-Drive Image. I created a Startup USB flash drive. I wanted to test the recovery environment:
1: My source Image is from a 1tb SSD, target is a 1tb mechanical drive.
2: UEFI is enabled and secure boot is disabled on computer
3: My first boot device is set as the internal target drive
4: Computer BIOS sees the target drive
5: For the image restore, I did not specify any options, I just dragged the source onto the target.
6: Rdrive and the log files tell me everything worked.
7: When I try and boot the new target in the computer, I get "No Boot Device Available"
8: I swapped in another 1TB target just to eliminate the first drive being the issue.
9: This time before the image restore, I used the Rdrive interface to delete all partitions on the target
10: Ran the image restore again with the same results, "No Boot Device Available"
Can someone give me some pointers as to why this is not working? I read someplace that the startup disks don't work in the trial version? I was able to create a USB flash drive for startup and that part booted and worked fine.
Thanks for any pointers.
So I have a basic Simple rotation backup schedule in place. I am using the trial version of R-Drive Image. I created a Startup USB flash drive. I wanted to test the recovery environment:
1: My source Image is from a 1tb SSD, target is a 1tb mechanical drive.
2: UEFI is enabled and secure boot is disabled on computer
3: My first boot device is set as the internal target drive
4: Computer BIOS sees the target drive
5: For the image restore, I did not specify any options, I just dragged the source onto the target.
6: Rdrive and the log files tell me everything worked.
7: When I try and boot the new target in the computer, I get "No Boot Device Available"
8: I swapped in another 1TB target just to eliminate the first drive being the issue.
9: This time before the image restore, I used the Rdrive interface to delete all partitions on the target
10: Ran the image restore again with the same results, "No Boot Device Available"
Can someone give me some pointers as to why this is not working? I read someplace that the startup disks don't work in the trial version? I was able to create a USB flash drive for startup and that part booted and worked fine.
Thanks for any pointers.