More recently, however, I had run into problems with YUMI. Really, it could be almost anything that would boot a computer for one purpose or another. The selected tool might be a Linux live CD it might be a Seagate HDD diagnostic tool it might be Acronis or AOMEI. So I would boot the YUMI USB drive, I would view that menu, and I would select a tool to boot the computer. ![]() To my surprise, the problem persisted even when I opened the case of my computer and connected the HDD using an internal SATA connection.įor some years, I had used YUMI to create multiboot USB drives - that is, drives containing multiple bootable tools. The HDD was merely 500GB, so there were no issues involving larger drives. Others (e.g., 1 2 3) had encountered this problem as well. Unfortunately, AOMEI could not recognize the external HDD. I booted with AOMEI on a USB flash drive, created as described below. adi drive image file on an external HDD, sitting in an external SATA dock connected to the desktop computer via USB. For purposes of booting in Legacy mode, the ISOs had been good enough with other computers but for this laptop, it seemed I might need to use AOMEI’s option to add drivers to its processes of creating the ISO or the bootable USB drive. The summary is that, for purposes of booting a computer in UEFI mode, I had the best results by using AOMEI’s option to produce a bootable USB (not ISO). This post describes the process by which I developed that USB drive. adi file was ready all I lacked was the bootable USB drive containing AOMEI. ![]() adi image, which could be located on either an internal or an external drive.Īt this point, the laptop was ready the external USB drive containing the. As I had found during years of using Acronis True Image Home for the same purpose, the process was quite simple: boot the laptop using AOMEI on the USB drive, and then use AOMEI to restore the. To do that, I wanted to put AOMEI on a bootable USB flash drive. adi drive image to the laptop’s hard disk drive (HDD). I had used AOMEI Backupper Standard to capture a backup of my laptop’s Windows 10 installation at an earlier time.
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