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Shane:
Well I know on my wifes acer switch 10 I got her, the only way to turn off secure boot in the bios was to set a supervisor password first. I have no clue why they made it that way, it is a really bad design, but it was the only way to unlock the options to turn off secure boot.
Perhaps your bios is similar?
Shane
geometer:
Shane,
Eureka! Your suggestion to set a password did the trick!
I was able to change the drive mode from EUFI to Legacy (Standard)
However, when I re-booted I received the following:
1. Drive is in Legacy (Standard) mode.
2. Attempt to boot results in screen showing this: "Realtech PCIe Family Controller, Series v.125 (04/09/11
PXE - E61: Media Test Failure, CHECK CABLE
PXE - M0F: Exiting PXE ROM, No Boot Device Found
PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT"
Using a neat little program, RUFUS, I am able to create a bootable USB flash drive. Google provided me with the only repair program, "BootRepairDisk" which came as an ISO. Unfortunately, it did not fix
the problem
Can you recommend an ISO based repair program?
If not, any further suggestions?
TIA
Shane:
Then the bios is still seeing the hard drive has having a EUFI boot sector and not a normal MBR. So it isnt offering it as a boot option since UFI is disabled.
What happens when you turn the system on and hit the boot options key, which I think is F12, it should bring up the boot menu, does the drive show up there?
Shane
geometer:
No. Also, no Boot Priority device list.
Shane:
Then the bios is seeing it as a EFI boot, yet the boot is corrupted. This is going to be a pain. A reinstall might be faster and less of a headache lol
I dont know what tool would be best to try and fix it as I dont mess with the EFI boot record normally, the MBR would have been easy to fix. But for EFI and with the security key tide to it and everything else, I dont know what the best fix is for it. This is one of the reasons I hate it lol
Shane
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