How to check if a Veritas System Recovery Disk (SRD) is booted in UEFI or BIOS mode.

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  1. Boot from the recovery disk
  2. Click on Analyze
  3. Click on Open Command Shell Window
  4. Type the following command: wpeutil UpdateBootInfo
  5. Type the following command: reg query HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control /v PEFirmwareType

If the command returns 0x1, the recovery disk is booted in BIOS mode. 0x2 represents UEFI mode. The below example shows a recovery disk booted in UEFI mode:

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NOTE: If you create the SRD on a USB drive that is formatted as NTFS, the SRD will only detect BIOS. If you need to create a USB Veritas System Recovery Disk that needs to boot on both BIOS and UEFI (firmware) computers, then you must create the recovery disk on a FAT32 USB drive.


Reference: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn293283.aspx

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How to check if a Veritas System Recovery Disk (SRD) is booted in UEFI or BIOS mode.