MVP Rescue media
My system is an Dell XPS8930 with 1TB HDD + Optane raid setup.
Standard Acronis 2017 was used to create rescue media but when tested in recovery mode the 1 TB HDD to which I wanted to do the restore was not listed.
I downloaded the MVP media creator package and created a second bootable rescue CD, but when tested in recovery mode it still did not list the 1 TB HDD.
Does anyone know if I've missed something here? I turned of secure boot in the UEFI Bios so that it allows me to boot from CD. I saw that someone in the forum had mentioned changing RAID to AHCI but I'm unsure if this is required. Also, should the images be created using the bootable rescue media?


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I think Ian is correct - I have a feeling that the Optane memory is the issue. But, then again, not 100%.
I'm not clear if you built the MVP rescue media AND selected the option to include custom drivers or not? This option is key, as selecting yes will add the IRST driver needed to see PCIe NVME drives when the bios SATA mode is RAID or RAID-on. If you did not, go back and recreate and say yes to add custom drivers so they are automatically added to your rescue media.
With some luck, despite the Optane memory, it may still see the drive and allow you to backup and/or recover.
If it still isn't working (or if you did do this), you can grab the latest IRST drivers (released in December but the version of IRST in the MVP tool is a couple versions back). Download those in .zip format from INtel and extract the content to a folder. Then copy the entire folder to the MVP tools location:
MVP_ATIPEBuilder_v186_Signed\Drivers_Custom\x64 and then rebuild and see if that helps or not.
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