Many of the new MBs are coming out with UEFI BIOS. This should not affect most normal operations. If you are trying to do a System Restore from a HD that is UEFI, you can only restore that to a new HD that is also formatted with a UEFI Protected System Partition. That is easy to do if you use your Windows 7 OS disk. What you need to do is look at how the devices you have on your computer are identified. That is usually done by hitting F8 while the computer is booting. You need to have the OS disk in a CD drive that is designated as UEFI in the BIOS. If it is not you will have to add an external USB CD drive which will be added to the BIOS as UEFI.
Simply, you must run the restore from a UEFI CD drive and it will create a UEFI HD to which it can restore the System Image which was created as a UEFI Image.
The only difference when running a UEFI system that I can find is that the System Partition is designated as UEFI instead as Recovery NTFS.
I have not been able to find anyway to force or designate a device as UEFI or BIOS in any of the MB BIOSs that I have played with this problem, except to add a USB CD drive which seems to shake things up.
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