Needed: Hints on how to backup and recover a Dell T3610 with UEFI Boot Drive (WinPE with Acronis 2017 won't boot)
I have a brand new Dell T3610 working with the following configuration:
Win7-64 UEFI
Based on what I see drive in drive management C: Boot is set up with UEFI and GPT
The boot drive is connected directly to the motherboard as SATA3 HDD0
The BIOS setup is configured to Boot the C: drive as UEFI drive.
The other BIOS settings have to be set to RAID (even though the boot drive is a single drive not on a RAID) or the system will not boot.
There are 2 additional HDD, two 5TB data drives setup on a separate PCIe LSI hardware RAID controller set up in a RAID 1 mirror configuration. The 5TB is set up as 5 logical 1TB drives. I don't believe that these drives should cause any issues in trying to image the separate 1TB C: Boot drive.
I bought Acronis 2017 to image and restore this system and I can make a tib backup of the hard drive but I can not figure out how do a restore. I have used
Acronis in years past without a hitch but this one has me stumped. I folowed the instructions of how to make a bootable WinPE with Acronis 2017 and burned the disk, it attempts to boot and I can see activity on the CD/DVD ROM drive LED but it never completes the boot. I took the CD to another system and it boots fine. I have used this drive to burn and view CD's and DVD's and I have done a one time boot to boot it but no help there.
When I do the one time boot from the CD for some reason it messes with my BIOS settings and I have to go back in and reset them so that the system boots from the UEFI drive. If I try and set the SATA to SATA or AHCI mode from RAID the system will not boot the operating system.
I am at a loss here. All I am trying to do is image the C HDD Boot drive and prove that I can recover the system. I have a bare 1TB drive that is identical to
the boot drive in the system for testing. I did try a legacy boot with the standard linux based Acronis 2017 disk but when I point to the .tib file Acronis
tells me that if I restore from this image the restored image will not boot. Also after booting a legacy one time boot I had to manually go back and reset the BIOS settings.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Sam
Loyal Acronis user since probably 2005


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