

Also, when creating the WinPE rescue image should this be created on the same PC that I want to use it on i.e. How do I tell? Perhaps your feedback on this will allow me to confirm why the Acronis CD works on my 1-yr old Dell with SSD and not on the new Lenovo Y700. Although I am an IT person I am not conversant with bus and protocol technologies like you are and I don't know whether my drive is NVMe. Hi to both and thank you for you detailed posts.

From there, run the MVP winPE builder and it will do the rest for you.
ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 2018 DOES NOT SEE HARD DRIVE INSTALL
Just install the Windows 10 ADK first (3.4Gb of items when you select the top 3 options which are needed).

The MVP WinPE tool makes all of this pretty simple though. If you are using an actual RAID set (0, 1, 5, 6, 10, etc), then you must use WinPE and include the RAID controller drivers in it. This work-a-round will only work if you have a single drive in RAID mode though. However, others have also been able to use the Linux media, by temporarily changing the SATA mode in the bios from RAID to AHCI, then doing a backup or restore, and changing it back to RAID before booting the OS. As a result, using WinPE with the proper RAID controller drivers (usually IRST will work), is what is needed. When using RAID, the default Linux media does not have RAID controller drivers so will not detect the hard drive. The issue occurs when the system bios is using RAID as the SATA mode instead of AHCI. The default linux media can see both NVME and eMMC hard drives. NVME drives are not an issue with the Linux media.
