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Well, I must say that I can't seem to be able to find quality answers on what one does to recover from a non-bootable situation with an optane-based setup. Case in hand, a Dell Inspiron laptop on the latest UEFI, with an optane module installed on the system, succesfully enabled to accelerate a 500Gb HDD.
I had used the Intel optane driver instead of Intel RST for the purpose. Then one day: bang, no more boot. Issue exactly one like the one at Will reset to non-optane (according to most ASUS ROG Laptop) delete entire data on both HDD and Optane?
I'm at loss at how to proceed. This is my daughter's rig, no serious data on it (thankfully I had a Google Drive for all her important stuff).
So (1) here would be, what can be done to repair/recover the Windows installation in this scenario? Worst case, are there any tools designed to salvage data?
There's a Lenovo KB article essentially instructing to set the system to non-optane operation, which, on this laptop as well as others, throws a huge warning about the erasure of the HDD data during that operation.
(2) I also have to decide what to do next. I mean, enabling optane is nice, but recovering the system seems messy, if not impossible.
Furthermore, without Optane and similar technologies (Intel SRT and Enmotus FuzeDrive come to mind) one can simply take full system backups with Macrium/Veeeam and restore to bare metal. Can someone do that one optane-based systems and similar?
My idea would be to have regular full system backups made, to recover instantly (losing only the recent data). Is this possible? Anyone tried that at home?
If I can't find a proper way to work with optane, I'll simply trash this thing and either stick with the hellish slow HDD, or replace it with a 256Gb SSD and be done with it...
carmik
Posted 2019-12-06T06:34:15.480
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even with optane, your backup softwaee will work. As long as you can fit the files inside the back up into the new drive, it should work. – Journeyman Geek – 2019-12-08T09:28:15.920