Samsung SSD Recovery again
Another user with a Samsung drive and big difficulties.
PLATE, THERMAL, M.2 PCI, 1.5, 5510/9550
SSDR, 512G, P34, 80S3, SAMSUNG, PM951
This 512 SSD runs in a brand new Dell XPS 15 9550, with Windows 10 Pro and Acronis 2016 Build 6027 installed and all of late MS Updates done.
Days prior the backup I partitioned above drive into C:\=100 GB and D:\=rest. Drive C comprises operating system and software programs only, where drive D comprises data only.
A full-image-backup of drive C within the installed Acronis 2016 on to a different volume/folder (drive D) caused no problems and the file was transferred to an external drive.
Within the installed Acronis and its Universal Restore section I created a bootable USB Stick. Two days ago I wanted to recover above backup. No problems here as the stick boots and runs until there is a message that says “True Image has not found any hard disk drive”. Online-Resource for help http://kb.acronis.com/errorcode/ and two codes like 0x000101F4 and 0x000A01FD.
Frustrated I went as far and started a clean installation of Windows 10 Pro but now even my Windows 10 Pro USB installation stick cannot find a disk drive any longer. Two items appear within the Windows installation procedure just before selecting a partition (in fact there is none): REFRESH and load NEW DRIVERS. Formatting and everything else are just greyed out.
I also opened a ticket with DELL, but no response so far. Question: who or what blocked my system and what is the answer to it. I have been using Acronis for years and never encountered such a thing. What to do?


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Hello Juan,
I believe the drive you have in your machine is one of the new NGFF M.2 PCIe SSD drives. The default boot media created with True Image is Linux based and does not have driver support for these new drives. In such cases it is necessary to create WinPE based boot media for driver support in order to restore a backup image to the drive.
As to why your Windows installation media does not detect the drive well, that's a good question. At this point I have no idea but follow Bobbo's suggestion to have a look in the bios to see if it is listed in the boot order.
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