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My BIOS doesn't see the drives containing the recovered material

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Hi,

I've recently installed a new m.2 ssd drive and lost everything for some reason. I was forced to Clear my CMOS to be able to go to the BIOS.
Now it boots straight to Acronis True Image where I can supposedly recover my Windows install. But when I try it it does it's thing for almost an hour suggesting it's actually doing anything. But it never shows up as a bootable drive in the BIOS.
I've tried a lot of things such as CSM, UEFI, everything that my searches recommended. It doesn't help, for some reason it's holding the recovered boot drive behind lock and key from me.

Thanks in advance,

Evelien

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Evelien, welcome to these public User Forums.

If you have installed a new NVMe M.2 SSD drive then it should normally be used in UEFI BIOS boot mode, not in Legacy BIOS mode.

What type of Acronis rescue media are you booting the PC from here? 
Have you created a boot USB stick, or created an Acronis Survival Kit external drive?

The Acronis boot media needs to be booted in UEFI BIOS boot mode, and after booting into that media, you need to confirm that you can 'see' the new M.2 SSD drive as an option for doing a Recovery of your backup image to?  You may need to click on Tools > Add new disk in order to prepare the new SSD to be used by selecting the GPT partition scheme option (as required for UEFI boot drives).

Once you can see and select the M.2 SSD, then you should be also able to do a Disk level Recovery to that drive.

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