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Acronis Boot USB can't see my notebook drive

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I have Acronis 2104, so sorry for posting here but there is no forum.

I just purcahsed two new notebooks, different manufacturers, and for both of them when I boot to my Acronis USB boot drive (It has Acronis and backup space all in one) Acronis starts, but it can't find the computer's hard drive.

I'm guessing this has to do with some BIOS setting, such as secure drive or AHCI or thunderbolt/USB but I've been unable to figure out how to get around this.

I've also experienced the same thing with other imaging boot USB keys, like Microsoft Server Esential Rescue key.

I'm desperate for a solution, because I don't even want to turn the machine on until I backup the original image.

 

Any suggestions?

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What type of hard drives in the new notebooks?  If using a PCIE NVME hard drive (Samsung 950 Pro or OEM Samsung 951 or one of the new OZC Toshiba), or if using an eMMC flash hard drive, Acronis 2014 does not have the correct drivers in the default bootable rescue media.  These drives only recently became supported in 2016 v6559 and newer (about 3 months ago).

And yes, if they are set in the bios mode as RAID instead of AHCI, they will need raid controller drivers which are not typically in the default bootable rescue media either.  In those cases, you would need to install the Windows ADK first and then create WinPE rescue media.  By default, it may have the necessary RAID drivers, but chances are, using an older version of Acronis which only supports older versions of Windows ADK, you would need to manually add drivers afterwards as well.

The more we know about your system, the more help you might receive though, but am guessing that because this is newer hardware, you need a newer version of Acronis since 2014 came out before this new hardware did.  

I would grab the beta version of 2017 since it's in test mode right now and freely available and as I'm using it on my daily machine, should do everything you want it to.  Or, grab the 2016 trial and burn the rescue media on another system, then use it to take an offline image.  The trial media will let you take a full offline backup and also do an offline restore.  If it works, then I'd suggest upgrading to 2016 as it's pretty discounted at the moment and you probably could get an upgrade to 2017 when it's