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Rescue media will not backup new HP Pavilion 15-CW1511 laptop

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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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Update:

Called the Support chat line. In the end used the WinPE bootable rescue media instead of Linux. Then it worked. Not clear why Linux didn't, though the support person said it should have.

However, even though the WinPE worked, was saving to an external USB drive, and for some reason could not write a backup to a sub-directory (even if just created by the bootable media), but could write to the root directory.

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.