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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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"My system is an Dell XPS8930 with 1TB HDD + Optane raid setup."

I suspect this could have something to do with the problem. Could you please elaborate on the "Optane raid setup" - does this mean you have more than one Optane drive? Or it it somehow workign with the HDD? (I know relatively little of Optane configuration.) My understanding is that Optane drives use M.2 connectors, and unlike some early M.2 SSD do not use RAIS or AHCI; for ordinary M.2 they use NVMe driver, and my reclollection is that they have proprietary drivers which may explain what you are seeing. Why this would result in the HDD not showing is beyond my understanding. I assume that the Optane raid is showing, if not please elaborate.

I suggest you post in the MVP recovery media thread in the ATI 2017 forum, including your original post here and answeres to the questions I have asked.

Update: The problem may be similar to that experienced with early hybrid drives (HDDs with small SSD included which acts in the same way as Opane drives do with internal HDD.

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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