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Checklist
- I looked at https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ to see if my question has already been answered.
- I performed a search in the issue tracker for similar issues, using keywords relevant to my problem.
- I clicked the
Logbutton in Rufus and copy/pasted the log into the line that says<FULL LOG>below. - The log I am copying is the FULL log, starting with the line
Rufus version: x.y.z- I have NOT removed any part of it.
Additionally (if applicable):
- I ran a bad blocks check, by clicking the 'bad blocks' check box in Rufus, and confirmed that my USB is not defective
- I also tried one or more of the following:
- Using a different USB drive
- Plugging the USB into a different port
- Running Rufus on a different computer
- If using an ISO image, I clicked on the
#button (at the bottom of the Rufus interface), to compute the MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 checksums, which are therefore present in the log I copied. I confirmed, by performing an internet search, that these values match the ones from the official image.
Issue description
Good day
I hope you can help me out.
I have a Microsoft Nextbook on which I am trying to install Windows 7 64bit. I know that my UEFI bootloader is a 32bit bootloader as I managed to load Ubuntu a long time ago (had to get the 32bit bootia32 files and all that).
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I created my bootable flash drive using Rufus 2.11 and chose the following options:
GPT Partioning Scheme for UEFI
NTFS File System
Used a genuine Windows 7 DVD from which I create an ISO image
I notice the following:
A folder gets created by rufus in the same directory as my source Windows 7 ISO. This folder has 2 subfolders (boot and Rufus). Each contains 3 files:
Boot contains bootarm, bootia32, bootx64
Rufus contains ntfs_arm, ntfs_ia32, ntfs_x64
After my bootable flash drive gets created by Rufus 2.11, I plugged it into my nextbook and it booted into Grub, saying that it cannot find 'efi/boot/Rufus/ntfs_ia32'. I proceeded to copy the file from the location above onto my flashdrive into '/efi/Rufus/ntfs_ia32'. I plugged my flashdrive back into my Nextbook and it gave me the attached photo of my error.
I tried replacing the bootia32 file that rufus automatically creates with the one above, but same error. (I dont know if they are exactly the same files therefore I tried both. I got the same error below both times)
I also extracted the file out of the Windows 7 ISO in the sources folder (the one you need to rename to bootia32.efi), but then I get 'Unsupported' error (but I dont think the latter error is of importance as the file size is so much different from the one Rufus creates but I attached the image just in case it is helpful).
If you need more information please let me know, or if you need me to test some things also.
Thank you in advance
Log
Windows 8.1 64 Bit Uefi Iso Download
It now turns out that 'while I was away', the UEFI specification had replaced the familiar BIOS firmware interface present in all IBM PC-compatible personal computers up till then and had worked fine for decades. It was too good to last, natch.
UEFI has not proved to be an improvement, if that was the industry intention which I doubt, but has instead presented many problems at least for me. One of which is that if I create a Repair Disc using Windows own imaging tool, it will not boot despite the correct boot options and sequence being set and duly saved before attempting boot.
These settings are simply ignored and the machine proceeds to boot Windows from the HDD. So, where does this leave me in case the HDD conks out? In the s-house, that's where. I have so far posted this question in quite a few known good forums over a few weeks, but gotten no straight-forward answer to date.
Either the person replying
1) suggests a complex work-around which should not be necessary under the circumstances or
2) suggests a non-working 'solution' or
3) comes clean and say they have never encountered this problem or are lucky enough to have the familiar, tried and true BIOS setup system of old themselves or
4) there are no replies whatever. A deafening silence.
From bad experience I know better than to put the question to Microsoft (convoluted, complex, involved explanations/solutions that don't work anyway. The local (Swedish) Dell support people couldn't support their way out of the proverbial wet paper bag, so they're no alternative and my question remains:
how do I make a working UEFI bootable rescue disk in Windows 7 64 bit?
Thank you.