![]() The safest method is to perform an image backup before installing a new driver, while setting a restore point is 2nd best. Drivers can be incompatible, and since they load automatically when Windows starts, an incompatible driver may prevent Windows from starting, or make it misbehave when it does start. Cloning apps and disk image backup apps typically install and use a driver, so that they can copy Windows files that are in use when Windows is running. In the comments Hans reported a problem with a laptop that won't run after installing AweClone. if you have neither and Windows won't start, you can try the Windows boot option of start known good or you should be able to remove or disable the new driver after booting into Safe Mode. If you've got that dock OTOH, cloning the hard drive to a new one is generally faster because with an image backup you're writing the data twice, once to a backup archive, & once to the target disk. To clone that same disk you need to have both drives mounted and accessible at the same time, & physically mounting a 2nd drive isn't always possible, and some people might not want to buy a USB hard drive dock that they'll only use this one time. a USB drive, or USB stick if it's large enough, also gives you the option to boot to a USB stick prepared by the backup app, restoring the backup to the new drive you've already installed. Restoring a backup image that you've stored on an external drive, e.g. Restoring an image backup to a new location has the very same result as cloning, but you've got the backup archive, and having a fresh backup is never a bad thing. A cloning app like AweClone, or the cloning feature in an image backup app, skips the archive part, copying the raw data & writing it as-is to a new location. The only time I have ever experience UEFI boot is just before a long series of swear words filling the room and emptying the building.Ī disk/partition image backup app copies the raw data from a hard disk to an archive file that normally takes up less storage than the original files/folders. which I do the moment I take a new computer out of the box. then reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system from scratch, ![]() change all BIOS settings to "legacy boot" and no UEFI, ![]() The only way I know how to change from an UEFI boot and hard drive layout to NTFS legacy hard drive boot and layout is to like when Subaru only made one car, so never gave it a name, until they made another car, then having to name the original the Subaru Legacy, I guess. I have no "BIOS MODE" information because my computer has no UEFI BIOS and therefore has no choices of different boot modes and different drive layouts, unaware that being a single mode = what is now known as "legacy" mode. If the value of BIOS MODE is, then Windows is booted in UEFI BIOS mode. If the value of BIOS MODE is, then Windows is booted in legacy BIOS mode. In the right pane of System Summary, you should see the line. type to open System Information window. Press the keys to open the Windows Run dialog, Let's ask another GOTD participant, EasyUEFI: " at knowing about hard disk drives and being able to copy them, clone them. We OUGHT to be able to identify any drive using today's GOTD MaGoShare AweClone software, right?Īfter all, it's supposed to be the ". gotta love random computer geek history ! ). ![]() Yes, the first drive, the boot drive, is usually drive 0, alphabetically C: ( there are reasons it's not 1 and A.
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