ASRM and NVMe disks
Hello. I use ATI from 2013 without no problems.
I've always used ASRM (F11) with my IDE and SATA disks.
Now I've a MB with intel Z370, 8th gen CPU and NVMe disk as primary disk, MBR (no GPT).
I cannot install ASRM on NVMe SSD.
It's not a bios logo problem, or whatever: I'm sure.
I'm forced to boot with the CDROM: I see all hard disk, even NVMe, and I can backup and restore all, but I wish I could use ASRM with F11 booting form NVMe.
If I use ONLY SATA hard disk (HDD or SSD) no problem. Same mainboard.
But if there is present the NVMe disk (Samsung 960 EVO 512GB), when I try to install ASRM the app crashs or tells me that has been installed (no error message), but then I can't view any boot loader at boot.
Furthermore, to install ASRM on a SATA disk I've to disconnect my NVMe SSD first.
If I boot with one of these disks with ASRM installed, I'll see the ASRM boot loader even if there is the NVMe SSD attached.
NMVe is connected in the M2 Key.M slot on motherboard: no PCI or other adapter.
Any idea?
ASRM boot loader incompatibility with NVMe?
Thanks.


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The NVMe drive is MBR rather than GPT. It is possible that with NVMe drives only support ASRM when GPT and UEFI are used. Just speculation on my part. May be worth creating a support ticket as this issue has not, as far as I am aware, been reported before. I get the impressiion that relatively few user use ASRM - I have not done so since ATI 2010. Another possibility is an incomatibility with the main board bios that uses F11 for some other purpose. Without knowing the model of the main board it is difficult to be certain. On some main board F11 brings up boot device selectiion, which may do nothing when only one drive is connected.
Ian
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As far as I understand ASRM still uses a small Linux Kernel OS to boot, so this too may have some bearing here.
As Ian has said, please open a Support Ticket with Acronis for this question and let us know the outcome after they investigate this with you?
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Enchantech wrote:My question would be does your NVMe drive attached to an M.2 port on the board share an SATA channel on the board or does it use a PCIe channel?
NVMe it's PCI-e 4x and Samsung 960 EVO is PCI-e, not M.2 SATA.
Anyway, in many motherboards if M.2 NVMe it's used there is a SATA port less.
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IanL-S wrote:On some main board F11 brings up boot device selectiion, which may do nothing when only one drive is connected.
Nope, because the MB manage correctly F11.
I've told that if I disconnect NVMe and I boot via SATA I see Acronis boot loader (press F11...).
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My money bet is that ASRM does not support drives using PCIe based connection. You can check with support to confirm
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