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Cannot Create Win PE Rescue Media

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I updated from Acronis True Image 2015 to 2016. Everything went smoothly. I also installed the media plugin to which I found a link on another post in this forum. I also installed the Win 10 ADK. Nothing helps. Everytime I try to create a Win PE Rescue Media, it runs for a little bit then just gives me a message that it failed to create the media. It does not give me an error code, and if I click on the link to take me to the page related to the failure, the page is just blank. Any help would be appreciated.

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I see the exact same thing. I updated from ATI 2015 latest version. The install was quick, smooth and painless.
I have tried the mount and explore archive options, but I have not yet done a backup.
The non-PE boot media works fine. The PE version is a failure.

I've built PE versions for several of the last releases, this is not my first crack at it. It used to be very elaborate, now it's trivial.

But it doesn't work.

My Windows is 10 pro upgraded from Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Player upgraded from Windows 8.0 with Media Player upgraded from Windows 7 Pro with Media Player.

Maybe I should have done a clean install? But so much audio software to re-install it would take months...