Acronis Recovery Disk can't see my hard drive
I have a brand new Dell Xps15 and to my surprise, the TI 2016 recovery disk can't see my hard drive. For all my PCs, I will typically use the recovery disk to create a full image of the disk and save it to my NAS. I've read little bit abou needing to possibly create a WinPE recovery disk? I'm not that familiar with this and from what I've read so far, I'm not confident it will solve the problem. Can any give me some guidance on this? I'm afraid to strat loding up this new PC with apps and files unless I'm confident I can recover in the event of a hard rive failure. My XPS15 has a 512GB SSD and some sort of Intel Radid Storage technology.
Thanks


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Intel Rapid Storage Tecnology is not supported by True Image default Recovery Media.
Follow Steves advice on creating a WinPE disk. You may find that the application will show 2 drives however depending on how the Intel solution is implemented.
Your best bet here is to first create an image of the drive(s) and then attempt to restore that image to prove it will work. That may prove to be something you cannot do.
True Image does not support Hybrid drives either but the Intel solution is not the same as it uses a separate drive for cache purposes to increase performance.
See this KB: https://kb.acronis.com/content/45886
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Thanks for everyone's replies, but I have found a free solution, Macrium, that works without going through all the trouble of building a customer WinPE recovery disk.
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Perry Blalock wrote:Thanks for everyone's replies, but I have found a free solution, Macrium, that works without going through all the trouble of building a customer WinPE recovery disk.
Actually, Macrium is using WinPE :) Glad it's a viable solution for you though.
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