Baremetal restore problem

Hi ​@maurilio arrigoni,

Welcome to the Community!

Basically you should check the following requirements:

• Do you use the same BIOS type (BIOS or UEFI) if you compare the SATA and the M2 disk?
• What does the source system (the system in the backup) use - UEFI or BIOS?

(Recommendation if of course UEFI since this is a requirements for Win11!)

• Is the target hardware the same or similar to the source hardware of the system?

I can imagine that this is a driver issue. Maybe the source system (in the backup) uses drivers that are not supported on the target system so the system crashes. This is often the case.

Maybe the M2 drive needs specific drivers, that have to be installed before the system can run.

Please consider the following: Try to fire up the system and boot into safemode of possible. There you can cleanup unused drivers and check the situation, refresh drivers and maybe this leads to a solution.

Feel free to keep us posted!

Best

Lukas

Hi ​@maurilio arrigoni   Windows automatically removes storage unused drivers from the early-boot process. If your original Windows installation was on a SATA drive, the NVMe driver may not be set to load during the early boot phase. This can lead to the INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE error when restoring to an NVMe M.2 drive.

You can manually load drivers by downloading the NVMe drivers and selecting Load Drivers while creating the Veeam recovery media

Confirm the SATA configuration in BIOS. If the source system was using AHCI mode and the BIOS is now set to RAID, it can cause boot issues. Try toggling between AHCI and RAID mode and test if it resolves the issue

Thank you for the answer. The PC is the same. So same bios type.

I am simulating a crash of my ssd sata drive.

So i have removed my sata drive, install the M2 hardware in my mainboard and do a restore baremetal.

My M2 do not have specific driver.

A question. in order do add manually to my recovery media stick the driver for m2 driver where can i found it?

Usually you can find them (NVMe drivers) in the PC/Motherboard or the NVMe OEM’s website

​@maurilio arrigoni If i understood well, you should follow the Mohamed Ali recommendation, using the link up above you will find the following screenshot:

You can select the driver to be included on your media.

Thank to all for the answer. I tryed to add Sumsung M2 driver but have the same problem.

There is a place where i can find a file with ALL m2 driver. Windows correct recognize the M2 so windows have the correct driver.

Try to boot into windows safemode and see if that resolve the issue. 

If that doesn’t work try boot into the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) using installation media. Open Command Prompt and run the following commands to rebuild the BCD:

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd

Restart and check if it boots.

Hi Maurilo, I think you should go to Samsung web site and get the drivers from there. you don’t need to load everysingle M2 drivers . 

thank to all.

Below the result of the commands (with my translation from italian to english):

bootrec /fixmbr

COMPLETED

bootrec /fixboot

ACCESS DENIED
bootrec /scanos

TOTAL INSTALLATION IDENTIFIED 0
bootrec /rebuildbcd

TOTAL INSTALLATION IDENTIFIED 0
COMPLETED

After a fresh installation of windows 11 and veeam (on my M2 drive) i have created a recovery media USB (so i was pretty sure that the driver of M2 is included). But the baremetal restore from this recovery media have the same error.

PS all installation and try are UEFI and not RAID mode.

Ather ideas?