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Are changes to the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager possible?

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Hello community,

I have the following problem:

I am using Acronis TI 2015 and I am running Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit from my Revodrive 3 x2 960, I am using a Samsung EVO 850 SSD 1TB as a Secure Zone. I can easyly Backup my Revodrive within Windows 8.1 but when it comes to the case that I need to do a Desaster Recovery, I run into problems.

When I boot up my Acronis Recovery CD Media the Revodrive is only shown as a splitted harddisk of 4x 236GB and so I can't recover on it (when I try it the installation becomes corrupted and won't boot anymore). So I read the forum and found out that there is an alternative Boot CD using WinPE, so i created a Boot CD using the WAIK Kit for WinPE 5 and successfully created a Boot-CD which correctly boots into WinPE and starts up Acronis 2015.

But within PE it doesn't show me the Revodrice at all. So I integrated the INF Drivers of the OCZ Revodrive in the boot.wim File and burned another DVD, this one does work (lot of work *sigh*).

Now the problem/question:

Is there a way to integrate those drivers into the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (Linux-based) as well or am I forced to run it from my custom created PE CD (which runs horrible slow compared to the ASRM from the SSD).

It is mostly a comfort thing, but after spending so much time and effort into the "project" I'd like to even optimize it some more and learn a bit more about the ASRM aswell (where can it be found and can it be altered).

Thanks in advance and best regards,

HOC User

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Revodrives are not well supported by Acronis. No problem running backups from Windows, but you will get into trouble with the recovery CD, so I am glad you were able to insert the drivers into the WinPE version....

There is no way to customize the ASRM. IN fact, I recommend against using it at all and stick with the recovery CD. The ASRM setup modifies the boot records and that can leave you into trouble when there is a problem with the recovery.

Is it possible to run the WinPE from a second SSD in the system? So I can select this to boot from instead of a CD. At least I am not able to select anything else then CD or USB in the creation process of the PE ISO, maybe there is a way to make an internal disk bootable using the ISO?

I don't know the answer to this. I know you can make a flash drive boot into an ISO easily, so it might be possible to have the computer boot into the iso.
I didn't think that the support would make a speed difference since the program gets loaded into the memory (unless you have very little RAM in the system). That said, WinPE are much slower to boot, for sure, but this is because of loading all the drivers, etc.

https://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/cc722114%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

This does describe the process, I haven't tried it yet, but surely will and then report back, maybe this helps others aswell.

Best regards!

Also required is this article, since the Microsoft article misses an important information:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/1f44f76…

After that it was booting flawless from the SSD, just took around 30secs to get into Acronis with WinPE and attached RevoDrive3 2X.