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Booting Lenovo X1 Carbon with Acronis Rescue Media

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Hello,

I am trying to boot my Lenovo X1 Carbon with an Acronis Rescue Media.  I created the media successfully with Acronis onto a USB thumbdrive.  I tried to reboot the laptop, after changing the bios boot order to USB and it keeps coming up to Lenovo ThinkVantage options.  I moved the SSD to the excluded area to try to avoid the Lenovo recovery setup.  Same result. Any ideas what to attempt.  

BTW - Steve & Bobbo - In trying to get my other M910 desktop to boot from a restored drive.  The key was to fail the boot up until I got the option to restart, then it gave me the option to startup in Safe Mode.  That worked and from there the new drive with the restored system has booted up fine.  I did go through the backup in the rescue media mode.

Thanks you both, may not seem like much but it all helps in getting the desired outcome.  I appreciate your time and input.

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Frank I had the exact same issue when I transitioned from a SATA SSD to my first PCIE NVME drive!  For the life of me I could not figure out why it wouldn't boot and it turned out the disk was "locked".  What that means exactly, I'm still not sure, but it can happen when Windows 10 Fastboot is enabled since it creates a protected hibernation file on the drive when it is "shutdown" (but not really being shutdown - it just uses sneaky hibernation to appear like it's booting more quickly from that hibernation file).  I don't know if that was in play at all, or something in the backup and recovery process that created similar behavior in that particular instance.  But, like you, after I failed to boot 3 times, I finally got the option to use F8 and boot into safe mode and it fired right upIII.  After that, it booted normally ever since.  I've transitioned that NVME to a different one about a year ago and to a new one just this week without issue too, but didn't run into that strange behavior again.

Now, for the current issue of booting...

1) Is secureboot enabled in the bios?  If so, you may need to disable it completely to be able to boot any external rescue media. I know this isn't your system, but was linked to this forum thread that shows an example on a ThinkPad: http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2012/09/lenovo-t430-t530-now-support-uefi-secure-boot.html

2) On some system's the bios must be set to allow legacy booting before any USB booting is allowed.  Even if you intend to boot the rescue media in UEFI mode, you may want to try enabling legacy as that can be key on some systems.

3) Also and/or alternatively, which rescue media did you build (Linux, WinPE or WinRE)?  If it was the Linux version, I'd recommend trying the WinRe (uses Windows hidden recovery partition to build WinPE media).  It's available in the default Acronis rescue media builder.  Alternatively, you can create something a little fancier with the MVP rescue media builder, but the booting would be similar in either case.