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Anybody used the ATI 2018 recovery media with a Surface Pro 4?

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Has anybody gotten this combination to work? 

I got an additional license for my SP4 and the client seems to work fine, but I can't get the recovery USB stick to boot. I'm using the default "simple" WIN RE version as I assume the Linux version won't work with bitlocked machines like SP4. 

Thanks in advance for any insight you may be able to provide. 

Philip.

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Philip, if your SP4 is encrypted by BitLocker then no version of Acronis Rescue Media will work with this as documented in KB 56619: Acronis True Image: compatibility with BitLocker

If you use the MVP Tool Custom ATI PE Builder tool, then you can include BitLocker support in the USB stick media that you create and try using this to access your SP4 encrypted drive.

Thanks Steve. I actually didn't even get far enough to run into what you pointed out above as the rescue media doesn't even boot on my SP4.

The KB article is interesting. It seems to imply that unless I suspend protection before backup the image is no good. I've made an image without using the "suspend protection" option and I can browse the image and recover files just fine. It seems that ATI is backing up a non-encrypted version since it's reading while the drive is unlocked and available in Windows. 

This would suggest that I should be able to restore it, but the result would be an unencrypted disk. Am I missing something?

Philip, the KB document is a little misleading when it talks about suspending protection for exactly the reason you describe.  Acronis running within Windows does not see any encryption by BitLocker and hence the backup created by ATI is unencrypted unless you use the option provided by ATI to use a password to encrypt it for protection.

See forum topic: Bitlocker, Acronis encryption, and Surface pro 4 best practice? for another recent discussion in this area.