Aomei Backupper system won't boot after restoring from backup
Hello,
I don't know why it doesn't work now. I use UEFI/secure boot. I deleted keys and therefore disabled secure boot, ran backup, then installed keys and therefore enabled secure boot (it shows in BIOS) and I can't boot: it says system detected violation... Also if I dsable secure boot, I can't also boot, it goes straight to BIOS. I tried 2 backups so I doubt it is bad backup. I did it the same way couple last times and it worked, no idea what is wrong?
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The IDE controller for the disk drives is also AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface). The System Backup seems to bug the AHCI drivers or its registry settings.
After the System Backup and I boot the machine, I get this at the prompt:
Serial ATA AHCI BIOS Version
Port -00: No device detected.
At first I had checked:
1. Universal Restore
2. Restore to other location
I then tried the system restore with checked:
1. No Universal Restore
2. Partition restore (no system restore)
This did not work also. I also tried all combinations of fixing the Master Boot Record. But I do not think the MBR was incorrect in the first place.
The only way I got it to work was to copy all folders and root files from the Explore Image drive to the new J: drive.
I am sure the System Backup is interfering with the AHCI drivers / registry.
I got System Restore to work once and the drive booted up OK. But for the life of me I do not know what I did right. This time, when I partitioned and formatted the new drive, I did not change the destination drive letter and left as is. However, I tried this again to make sure it was the correct way and it failed 4 times. The same No device detected.
I found out that the only way to boot the new system restored drive was to go into BIOS and change the AHCI to IDE. I was surprised when boot.ini showed the drive and it loaded OK. When booted, I looked in Device Manager / IDE controllers. Sure enough, AOMEI has wiped out my SATA AHCI controllers and has set it to standard IDE.
This has to be fixed. I cannot work with a backup program and a System Restore that does this. I am using Backupper Professional BTW.
I am still using the same computer and operating system. I did a system backup of my Seagate 500 GB drive. I restored to a Western Digital 300 GB drive. To me, this is dissimilar hardware.
Does dissimilar hardware mean that it is: a different hard drive - different motherboard - different graphics card - different memory - different CPU? All of these devices combined? Not just a hard drive on its own?
I see this also in the manual with dissimilar hardware:
Restoring Windows to a computer with dissimilar hardware, it may be necessary to enter license codes to reactivate Windows Drivers (such as the video/sound card drivers, display driver, NIC drivers, etc.) are not installed by Universal Restore for dissimilar hardware.
I shall try without universal set.
It might pay to put that in your next AOMEI Backupper PDF Manual revision. Also in the Universal Restore ? mouse over tip.
NOT using the Universal Restore ticked seems to have fixed the problem. I was able to do a full System Restore again and the hard drive booted up fine. Just to note again that both hard drives are different brands and different sizes.