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cloning to intel ssd 750 (pcie) failed

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I was not able to clone my system disk to the intel ssd. After Booting Acronis doesn´t find the intel ssd. What´s wrong? Thanks for help!!!

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Make sure you perform the cloning operation from the Acronis recovery CD/USB flash drive. Put the destination disk on the same connector as the old disk, put the old disk on some other connector or a USB Sata adapter. Then boot the computer on the Acronis recovery medium and perform the clone. Automatic setting should work. If it doesn't, choose manual and leave all partitions unchanged except the C:\ user partition.

the original system disk is an Samsung 850 ssd on Sata. The new Intel one is on an Pcie slot. I can´t put the destination disk to the same connector ...

I doubt you will be able to clone to the pci-e drive. Linux distribution used to perform the clone procedure in all likelihood does not support such devices. Do you have Acronis installed under Windows on your computer? If yes does the drive show up in the installed Acronis app?

Your best bet here is a fresh Windows installation. Even then only certain Z97 and X99 boards support booting from pci-e. Make sure that your bios is updated to the latest version for your best chance of success.

The Intel Süd ist shown up in windows. I can do everything with it with disk director and true image. If I start from the cd - then always splashes a window: remove all change media (I don´t know the exact translation …) and check boxes to wait … or abort. There the procedure stops always.
Maybe it´s an issue with the mobo bios - but msi says, my mobo ist supported and I have the right Bios version.

Your motherboard manufacturer is correct in stating that you can boot Windows from a pci-e connected SSD as the board supports it. The problem is not Acronis True Image itself but rather the Linux distro that is used to run True Image while performing the clone task. Since Acronis True Image can see the drive while running in Windows that is an indication that True Image can in fact write to and read from the drive while running under Windows. That is the upside.

The down side is that because the clone operation as carried out by True Image is not done while True Image is running under Windows but is instead done while True Image is run under a Linux distro means that the Linux distro must support the pci-e SSD which is where the problem is. The Linux disto used to run True Image does not support a pci-e connected SSD hence True Image cannot perform the clone operation. Even if you were to attempt to perform the clone operation while running the True Image app under Windows it would not work as True Image running under Windows once configured to perform a clone operation will reboot into the Linux environment to perform the clone. That means that since True Image is at that point running under the Linux distro the clone operation fails.

The reason for this is probably because the Linux distro does not contain a driver for the pci-e SSD. Therefore the best way to get Windows on the pci-e SSD is again to do a fresh install onto the drive.

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My suggestion to you would be that you could try creating the WinPE based boot Recovery Media which allows True Image to run under a Windows based environment and might allow you perform True Image tasks such as clone from within that environment.

Any chance we could get an updated Linux recovery environment that supported Pci-e ssd's of which there are several dozen models now? TI 15 is less than a year old and Pci-e ssd's have existed for the entire lifetime of TI 15.

I'm running into the same problem now with TI2016. Due to the fact that I'm running Bitlocker additionally True Image is telling me that I have to use a Boot Media to recover but with boot media I don't have the drive.

There are Linux distro's that have NVME in the kernel (3.10).  Certainly Acronis has this in house and could sort it out.  For me I've got no reason to update to TI 2016 if you can't get the linux restore system to work NVME drives.  And there is zero chance of me tossing TB of data over the wire to the cloud.

How can such an otherwise great product, that is issuing a brand new version miss not just the boat but most of the ocean?

David Fey wrote:
Any chance we could get an updated Linux recovery environment that supported Pci-e ssd's of which there are several dozen models now? TI 15 is less than a year old and Pci-e ssd's have existed for the entire lifetime of TI 15.

I'm using build 6613 and the boot disk it creates has no trouble seeing my Samsung eSATA drive. I've done a full restore from the eSATA after some MS updates blew my system. Or, is the Pci-e ssd a different item?

Joe