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How to Restore UEFI m.2 RAID Zero backup

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I have been using TI 2016 to make incremental update backups. MS's latest update corrupted many installed programs. I want to restore to the latest good back up. I have been using IT 2016 for two years and this is the first time I needed to restore from back up.

My system is an ASUS ROG Strix Z270 motherboard with UIEF M.2(SSD) x2 drives in RAID zero. I think it is in MBR, not GPT.  With the motherboard set up in UIEF,. it dose not see the internal dvd drive as a boot device. Only the M.2 Raid is seen. So I can not use the TI 2016 boot recovery media CD. If I can remember how to take the system out of UIEF then I think the system will see the m.2 drives as separate drive and not RIAD 0. I am not not sure about this though.

So I reinstalled WIN10 and TI 2016 and tried to restore from within win10. When TI 2016 rebooted the system, the linux OS shows an error message that it could not find the target drive. Then the light blue TI recovery program opened and closed, then rebooted to win10.
The reason I post here in TI 2018 is that I installed TI 2018 trial version and tried the same process, but got the same results.
So what is the reason to do backups if you can't restore from them?
Is there a procedure listed somewhere to deal with this type of situation? I could really use a step by step process to do this restore. 
Any help, suggestions, links would be much appreciated.
Thanks!! 
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The first check point that is needed here is to confirm whether your system is Legacy/MBR or is UEFI/GPT which you can do by running the msinfo32 program in Windows and looking at the BIOS mode setting shown in the report from this tool.

From what you have said so far, I would assume that it will be UEFI (not sure where your UIEF reference comes from?).

This means that any Acronis Rescue Media you attempt to boot from should be started in UEFI mode to match how Windows boots.

See KB 59877: Acronis True Image 2017: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media which shows how to recognise the difference here.

Next, your computer has both M.2 SSD drives and these are in RAID 0, both of which are not supported by your ATI 2016 default Linux based Rescue Media, so you will need to create the alternative Windows PE version of the Rescue Media, and then also inject additional device drivers for the unsupported hardware / RAID support.

Note: attempting a recovery from within Windows using ATI also launches a small, temporary Linux OS environment, which again does not have support for RAID..

To create the WinPE Rescue Media for ATI 2016 you would need to download and install the Windows 10 ADK resource that provides the necessary files - if you select the WinPE option in the Acronis Media Builder tool, this will direct you to the Microsoft website to download the ADK.  The Windows 10 ADK is a very large download of 3-5GB but when you install it, you only need to select the top 3 options from the install menu shown.

The ATI 2018 application has changed from creating the Linux media by default, to attempting to create the WinPE media based on the files available in the Windows Recovery Environment.

The MVP Custom ATIPE Builder script (available via the MVP User Tools and Tutorials link in the forums) can create the WinPE media based on either the Windows Recovery Environment or the Windows 10 ADK files, plus can inject the Intel RAID drivers needed for your system.

I would recommend using the MVP tool and creating the rescue media on a USB stick formatted as FAT32 and of no larger size than 32GB - you can use as small as just 1GB size.  Test that you can boot the USB stick and see your RAID drives as a single drive.

K L,

I would bet that your system is using UEFI by your description.  If you had UEFI enabled when you installed Windows 10, which I bet would be the default for your your motherboard, then it is most certainly using it.  Windows 10, in that situation, would format the drives as NTFS/GPT as default.

Can you create True Image Recovery Media on a USB flash drive and use that instead of the CD?  The trick to booting media on a board like your ASUS is that you select the correct boot entry in the priority list in the bios.  You need to choose only entries that are preceded by UEFI in their name as anything else will not boot.

Thanks both of you. !! very helpful.

Just check and I am NTFS/MBR (The minimal speed boost with GPT imo not out weigh the hassles it can create with partition software)

I do not know how to make UEFI USB Boot media.

MVP Custom ATIPE Builder tool loos like it would work best. I like that you said it would included the needed RAID drivers.

I downloaded MVP Custom ATIPE Builder tool and ran it as admin.It did not run fully. It reports Windows RE is disabled and closes. see pic. No clue what that means or how to fix. I could not find the 'manual' about how to use it. I did find some scripts but I do not know what they mean or how to use them. All this is a bit out of my wheelhouse.

Suggestions?

Thanks again

Anhang Größe
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K L, all the recent Acronis Rescue Media is capable of working with both Legacy/CSM and UEFI systems and being booting in either BIOS mode.

See KB 59877: Acronis True Image 2017: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media which shows these different modes of operation.

See webpage: Repairing the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) for information on dealing with problems with the WinRE area.

One reason why WinRE may be disabled is if you have a dual-boot system (as I have myself), in which case you can use the alternative method of installing the Windows 10 ADK then taking that option in the MVP tool.

Thanks

 No I do not have a dual boot system. But I am a Windows Insider user. That is what caused my problem.

I have been in it since the begining, but never had to use a back up. until now. 

I used TI2018 Rescure meida WinPE builder and made a WinPE USB drive that boots from my system. I added the raid drivers, as asked, during the build process. But once I booted to that usb drive, It dose not see the RAID m.2 array. Only the spinning HDD where with backup files are located.

What do I need to do have winPE boot with the RAID drivers working to see my raid 0 m.2 array?

Again many thanks for everyone'e help

 

You can extract the driver from your Windows system by following the steps HERE

Success!! 
I was able to make recovery media that see's my m.2 Raid 0 array from the above links!!!
Many, many thanks to everyone above that graciously helped me out!!
USB recovery sick labeled and stored safely in case of future use.
Thanks all again!!

Glad to read good news and that you have a working USB rescue stick ready for use when needed.

K L 

Very good to hear!  Thanks for reporting your success.