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Acronis recovery media doesn't see internal storage media

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System: New Dell Inspiron 5593 with UEFI BIOS (version 1.2.0), secure boot enabled in Deployed mode, 1x M.2 PCIe SSD-0 on SATA-2 1TB PC601 NVMe SK hynix drive with 2 partitions (C:\ & D:\)

Please note: This drive has been set as a RAID/SATA configuration from the factory, instead of AHCI/SATA!

OS: Win 10 Enterprise v1909 latest stable build, 64bit

Acronis version 2020 update 2

Problem:
Acronis recovery media on USB doesn't detect any internal drive media / partitions for backup or recovery. Same issue when trying via F11 key (Acronis setup recovery manager).
Creating backups (& restoring same) through Acronis running under the OS works fine.

Questions:
1) How can I resolve the issue that the recovery media cannot see the internal partitions on the M.2 PCIe SSD?
2) Is this an issue due to the UEFI BIOS?
3) Would changing the SATA drive operation to AHCI/SATA resolve the problem? I haven't tried this due to the risk of the OS installation becoming corrupt when changing from RAID to AHCI.

All help and advice would be much appreciated. Thanks and cheers

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Steve, welcome to these public User Forums.

For the rescue media, there are 3 different versions available:
Simple:  created based on your Windows Recovery Environment for WinPE media.
Advanced: created based on Windows ADK (or AIK for earlier OS versions) - WinPE media.
Advanced: created based on a small Linux distro OS (BusyBox).

If you are using the downloaded .ISO rescue media from your Acronis Account page, or else using the F11 prompt by installing Acronis Startup Recovery Manager, then these both use the Linux version of the media, but this has no support for RAID or NVMe drives to my knowledge.

If you create the Simple version of the media using your Windows RE files, then this does support both RAID and NVMe M.2 files.

See KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media
KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media
KB 63295: Acronis True Image 2020: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media