Rescue media will not backup new HP Pavilion 15-CW1511 laptop
Trying to use TI2021 (latest update) to backup a new HP Pavilion 15-CW1511 laptop. Trying to get a backup of it in its 'new' state, so using bootable rescue media. The bootable media is a 16GB USB stick (laptop has no CD/DVD), and the bootable media is Linux-based.
Since there is only one drive in the laptop, and it isn't partitioned yet into anything I can use, trying to backup to a second USB drive.
I've used bootable media backup for years, but on this new laptop it won't work. Process is:
- From UEFI boot loader, select True Image (64bit)
- Select backup my disks - the NTFS boot partition, EFI system partition and recovery partition are all selected by default, so just click 'next >'
- In backup location, browse to the removeable drive (E), set filename as 201017A, click OK ....
- .... and the keyboard and touch screen are dead, the only thing that now works is to hold down the power button for 5 seconds to reset the laptop.
- Tried waiting a long time, no different.
- Tried various destination USB drives - 16GB memory sticks to 512GB drives - makes no difference.
- Tried letting it create its own backup name - no difference.
Cannot get past this. What is wrong?

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Nick, I would recommend creating an Acronis Survival Kit external drive using a HDD drive instead of using a USB stick, this will allow you to boot from the drive and also store backup files on the same drive in the main NTFS partition.
See KB 58006: Acronis software: NVMe drives in RAID mode are not detected by Linux-based bootable media and Acronis startup recovery manager - which may be relevant to the Linux media issue you saw.
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