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iSCSI Initiator with Acronis WinPE CD

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Hallo,
I have created with Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack the WinPE ISO-image and burned it to CD. I would like to connect to my iSCSI (Internet SCSI) drive on my NAS. The WinPE CD boots from my notebook and starts True Image 2012. In the console (windows command processor) I try to run iSCSI Inititator by first starting "net start msiscsi" and second "iscsicli QAddTargetPort [ip-address of NAS with iSCSI]". There I got the error message "Target Error". I tried "iscsicli TargetInfo [targetname]" and got

"Microsoft iSCSI Initiator version 2.0 Build 3825
The target name is not found or is marked as hidden from login."

Has somebody get successfully run and connect to an iSCSI drive with WinPE? After connection to iSCSI ("iscsicli QLoginTarget [targetname] [CHAP user] [CHAP password]") windows operating system (WinPE) should normally assign a new drive letter to the iSCSI drive, so that I can access it like an internal hard drive and restore my backup from it with True Image.

The process of building the WinPE ISO-Image with Plus Pack includes the ZIP-archive "C:\Program Files (x86)\Acronis\TrueImageHome\BartPE\WinPE.zip", which contains the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator software, that is integrated into the ISO-Image by Acronis WinPE ISO Builder from the Plus Pack.

Starting installed windows (Win 7 or Win XP) iSCSI software works well and I could connect to my iSCSI drive successfully, but not with WinPE.

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