Image restore - new Surface pro 9

Restore
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Hi
Got a surface pro 9 - and bought a (larger) new replacement hard drive (it uses the tiny m2 nvme drive) - disk is brand new out of the box, and unformatted.

I’m able to do the initial boot into the restore image, however, it doesn’t fully boot - in the messages that scroll up the screen while booting, it gets to sda (I recall it said removable scsi?) and it stopped there and didn’t proceed. I tried the other boot mode (after the initial grub boot screen), and that didn’t come up with any boot messages at all…

For info, I was able to boot into a ubuntu based live iso image and was able to boot my surface pro 9 without issue, I could see the new disk using gparted without any issue.

Just wondering if there’s an issue with this type of drive on the recovery image… ? I’m guessing somewhere along the line, I’ve missed some option?

Thanks
Carl.

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Hi

Checking to see if anyone has any thoughts…? - I’ve been able to boot my surface pro 9 from other linux ‘live’ ISOs… just curious why there was an issue when I used the URBACKUP restore ISO…

Thanks
Carl.

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You know if bit locker was enabled before backing up? I’ve heard there can be issues with that in the boot partition.

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Hi

No - not enabled - also, the disk I was restoring to was brand new, so that was blank as well…

Thanks
Carl.

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Hijacking thread - do you have any more specifics on this? I just posted a new thread and I think bitlocker might be my issue.

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Hi

No more specifics to be honest - basically the URBACKUP restore disk wasn’t able to boot… I never got to the point where I could get a $ prompt to check / do a dmesg…

I ended up having to use a 3rd party image backup tool (aomei I think?) and do a backup and restore to the new drive as the restore disk worked…

Its just a shame that I’m taking regular image backups and find that I’m not able to use them… :-/

Thanks
Carl.

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Thank you. I think I will try disabling bitlocker and seeing if that allows me to restore.

I’m able to boot into recovery usb, I just am not able to select my boot drive (the one that is encrypted) as the restore target. I know that windows made some updates that broke dual booting into Linux, so this could be related to that as well.