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July 13th, 2016 17:00
Create DIA USB for UEFI boot?
I have a E6440 with UEFI enabled in the bios. I have installed windows 7 64bit Ent. I have installed DIA and created a usb stick and captured my image. Now when i test the usb stick on the same E6440 with UEFI enabled, the usb stick DOES NOT show up in the boot menu under "UEFI BOOT"
what did i do wrong? why wont the usb stick that i create with DIA show up with UEFI enabled?
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maperez834
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July 14th, 2016 10:00
Tyler,
When a USB stick is formatted for UEFi booting, it will show up in the boot menu under the heading "UEFI BOOT". I have formated regular USB sticks with "Rufus" that show up in the "UEFI BOOT" section of the boot menu, but the created DIA USB will not show under the "UEFI BOOT".
My question to you is why does the DIA USB stick NOT show up in the "UEFI BOOT" section in the boot menu, when it is formatted with fat32?
maperez834
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July 14th, 2016 11:00
Gary,
Again, My question to you is why DOESN'T the DIA USB stick show up in the "UEFI BOOT" section in the boot menu, when it is formatted with Fat32 or NTFS?
Here is an image of a Dell boot menu with the DIA USB inserted, NOTE: the UEFI BOOT does not show the DIA USB.
kbimg.dell.com/.../I_Tablet_Dell_Venue_11_Pro_7130_7139_Imaging_Recommendations_002_BD_v1.jpg
Now Here is an image of the Dell boot menu with a USB formatted for UEFI inserted. NOTE: the UEFI BOOT does show the USB formatted for UEFI.
www.niallbrady.com/.../select-UEFI-boot.png
Gary Babcock
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July 14th, 2016 11:00
Dear Maperez834,
Rufus will use a Linux loader and create a hidden FAT32 boot partition and format the rest of the drive and the only visible partition as NTFS.
While SOME Dell systems and BIOS versions can support UEFI booting of an NTFS formatted drive, the UEFI Standard is to boot from FAT32 only.
DIA uses all Microsoft tools and recommended practices, so we only format USB Drives with a single partition.
Hope this addresses your concern, if not please respond and I will attempt to address this further.
Thanks,
Gary Babcock
Software Development Senior Engineer
Dell | Configuration Services
DELL-Tyler M
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July 14th, 2016 07:00
Hi MAPERZ834 -
There are two format options when you create the USB drive. FAT32 & NTFS. If you need UEFI bootable, you will need to format the drive FAT32.
Thank you,
Tyler
Gary Babcock
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July 14th, 2016 15:00
What is the "UEFI: Sandisk SD6SP1M128G1012" option that is showing?
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Gary Babcock
Software Development Senior Engineer
Dell | Configuration Services
maperez834
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July 14th, 2016 18:00
Sandisk SD6SP1M128G1012 is my harddrive.
SanDisk X110 128GB SSD HDD NGFF M.2 SATA SD6SP1M-128G-1012 0Y48CM 6Gb/s 19nm MLC Hard disk Drive 2260 22x60mm For Dell Laptop Notebook
maperez834
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July 14th, 2016 18:00
Gary,
I solved my problem. I create the DIA USB within windows 8.1 and I also installed the latest version of DIA which is 6.2.
Now my DIA USB stick will show in UEFI BOOT menu.
Thanks for responding to my request.
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July 15th, 2016 06:00
maperez834 -
Thank you for the follow up. What was the difference between working and not working? I see that with working you state Windows 8.1 and the latest version, but I'm curious what the scenario was when you were not able to make this work.
Thank you,
Tyler
Gary Babcock
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July 15th, 2016 09:00
Could you also provide a screenshot of the working system?
I too am curious to know how this was resolved to make sure we have a full answer and aren't missing anything.
The base OS used to create the Key shouldn't matter, but we do make a lot of changes in between ImageAssist releases. Anymore details you could provide would be appreciated as we want this thread to have a full and complete resolution.
Thanks,
Gary Babcock
Software Development Senior Engineer
Dell | Configuration Services
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October 23rd, 2024 22:28
@maperez834 Do you have a step by step on how to do that with windows 10?