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Is there any way to restore the W10 PC from a USB drive when the CD rom is not bootable? Even the updated Acronis program doesn’t seem to let me get to the Seagate USB drive.

I have 2 hard drives + a USB drive backup. The program refuses to look anywhere other than D drive.for the restore tib.

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Larry, welcome to these user forums.

Quick answer is yes, you can create the Acronis bootable Rescue Media on CD/DVD or USB memory stick - it can be created using the standard, Linux based, media or alternatively, created using Windows PE with the Windows 10 ADK for greater compatibility with some more recent hardware components and devices.

Please note that when booting from the Rescue Media that this should be booted in the same mode that the Windows OS uses, i.e. if Windows uses the UEFI / Secure Boot bootloader, then use UEFI mode to boot the Rescue media.

See webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS for details on how to check the boot mode.

See forum post: 117004: Great Acronis "How-To" videos and other Acronis Resources for some video resources and tutorials.

Ditto to Steve's note.  

1) I'd also be curious to see what your disks look like in computer management >>> disk management for additional reference.  

2) What is the SATA mode set to in your bios (AHCI, RAID or something else)?  If set to RAID, you may need to use WinPE instead of the default Linux media.  Linux media only has RAID support for certain controllers.  WinPE will have better driver compatibility "out of the box", but may also still require that you inject the Intel IRST drivers intel the WinPE.

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Steve... interestingly  enough, Enchantec and I have been doing some testing with Linux media, NVME and RAID support because of the numerous Dell's that seem to be shipping wiht RAID-ON for a single NVME installed driver.  Apparently, NVME can benefit from RAID, although testing shows no real performance difference with different drivers (generic, Intel or board specific) when using RAID or AHCI with a single disk.  

However, it turns out that the default Linux media can/does support RAID out of the box and even with NVME drives, regardless of the RAID driver within Windows.  It really seems like it may depends on the motherboard/bios itself.  Both he and I are able to use the default Linux media with NVME drives or SATA drives in RAID mode with the default Acronis Linxu bootable media.

My board (Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 3 (rev. 1.0)) actually has a pre-install driver that updates the Bios and Enchantec's has it too.  However, I had to manually download and run this before it became an option in the bios.  Not sure about older motherboards, but I'm guessing this is more common in the Z170X boards now and probably at least the x99 boards too.

SATA RAID/AHCI Version Size Date  
Intel SATA Preinstall driver
(For AHCI / RAID Mode)
Note: Windows setup to read from USB thumb drive.
14.8.0.1042 0.57 MB 2016/06/23  
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