Solved Restore Problem

The-Hive · Jun 22, 2023

I am having trouble restoring an image with either Macrium or Aomei. The problem is everything backs up fine but when I try to restore, my main SSD is no longer available or visible. Here is what Macrium sees ( Aomei is the same )
My SSD is partitioned to C and D.
My rescue media a USB E
and my backup drive is G
When I backup, all is fine and when I boot to the rescue media all is fine and the SSD is showing all the partitions correctly, but when I try to restore the pc will not find the SSD and it now calls the old G drive with the image on the C drive, The Rescue media which was E is now D and there is a Boot which is X, so I cannot find the SSD to restore to.
Everything is fine until I boot to any rescue media...
I wonder if this could be a BIOS problem.
Any help would be great, Thanks

cereberus · Jun 22, 2023

Is your drive an nvme drive?

The-Hive · Jun 23, 2023

cereberus said:
Is your drive an nvme drive?

Yes it is according to the manual. it is 2X2GB drives in raid 0. It used to work fine until an Alienware update.

Ghot · Jun 23, 2023

The-Hive said:
Yes it is according to the manual. it is 2X2GB drives in raid 0. It used to work fine until an Alienware update.

Do you have a screenshot of Disk Management or Minitool... ?

The-Hive · Jun 23, 2023

Ghot said:
Do you have a screenshot of Disk Management or Minitool... ?

Thanks @Ghot I will get one when I get to that PC Thank you

Ghot · Jun 23, 2023

The-Hive said:
Thanks @Ghot I will get one when I get to that PC Thank you

I'm guessing it has something to do with where the EFI Syatem partition is located?
Or maybe something to do with RAID... or just an Alienware boo-boo.

The-Hive · Jun 23, 2023

@Ghot here are the screen shots Thanks

rockyanexp · Jun 23, 2023

check bios for intel rapid storage tech /IRST VMD.
if its present, install drivers while building rescue media

The-Hive · Jun 23, 2023

rockyanexp said:
check bios for intel rapid storage tech /IRST VMD.
if its present, install drivers while building rescue media

Thanks, will do

The-Hive · Jun 26, 2023

FIXED... an in place repair of Win 11 and new rescue media USB did the trick.
I didn't know that you can change the drive mapping from the Macrium Restore wizard

glasskuter · Jun 26, 2023

IRST drivers (what we once called f6) MUST be included either in your restore media OR loaded from external media during restore. Make sure you have the correct one for 13th generation core processor.

The-Hive · Jun 27, 2023

glasskuter said:
IRST drivers (what we once called f6) MUST be included either in your restore media OR loaded from external media during restore. Make sure you have the correct one for 13th generation core processor.

Thanks. It looks like Macrium or the repair must have sorted it as I am seeing all drives and they are correct and I can now backup and restore fine.