Booting from recovery usb

[mark]

I use Todo backup with a 4 port USB hub.  I plug a keyboard, mouse and 2 USB sticks in, 1 recovery and one with the backup (a larger storage USB stick, 64GB in my case).  Turn tablet off and then power on hitting f7 for boot menu.  Select the recovery USB and boot into the program and restore.  You can then restore the entire drive.

I had also downloaded Macrium Reflect but tried Todo first and it works great so there was no need to go any farther.  Good luck.

 

[Andy Jenkinson]

Thank you very much! I’ll give that a try. I wondered how to press F7 on my Bluetooth keyboard:) Pity no-one seems to have come up with detecting a swipe gesture instead of a keyboard key for entering boot menu.  Sort of defeats the object of a tablet with onscreen keyboard. Now to find a USB keyboard:)

[Ruoska]

Andy Jenkinson wrote:

Thank you very much! I’ll give that a try. I wondered how to press F7 on my Bluetooth keyboard:) Pity no-one seems to have come up with detecting a swipe gesture instead of a keyboard key for entering boot menu. Sort of defeats the object of a tablet with onscreen keyboard. Now to find a USB keyboard:)

 

You can get to bios by using onscreen keyboard too. While booting tablet tap few times on bottom of the screen and onscreen keyboard will appear then TRY to press F7 on that tiny onscreen keyboard. I never had to use actual keyboard to get in bios.

This is might bit tricky since that onscreen keyboard is so small if its propably made for ants…

[Andy Jenkinson]

Thank you.  I’ve noticed a few windows which appear microscopic on the Teclast and are not re-sizeable. Samsung’s hard drive management takes up less than a tenth of the screen and the partition display is even smaller.  Only window options are close,  minimise and about. Need a magnifying glass to read it!

Fortunately I’ve got an old usb keyboard.  Anyone found a suitable keyboard case with USB not Bluetooth keyboard?

 

[Andy Jenkinson]

@Mark

Hi Mark,

Tried to back up the whole disk with EaseUS Todo. I got a message “Checking the partition found errors on 8 partitions without drive letter (unknown partition). Click ‘OK’ to create sector by sector backup or ‘Cancel’ the backup’.

Did you get this? Will my backup be valid if I choose sector by sector? Could this be linked to the failure of Windows to create its own recovery media?

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