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I have an Edge 530 62724GU. After setting it up to my specifications, I booted it from a WinPE7 thumbdrive to create an image, and discovered that it doesn't have native USB3 drivers. It could not see the USB3 external drive I wanted to back up to.

Is this the way it works for everyone, or did I make some kind of mistake or misinterpretation?

All Windows PE builds I've had the pleasure to use suck.

You can plug your drive to a USB2 port (of course the backup will be slower), or you can use Acronis or similar software that's smart enough to use Windows' existing installed drivers when you backup.

Thanks for the reply.

One problem is that on the E530, there is only one USB2 port, which was occupied by my thumbdrive. Of course, it had copied the thumb drive's OS into RAM, and I could remove the thumb drive and plug the external backup drive in to the USB2 port, but it seemed clumsy.

As a bright spot, the software installable in Windows thru Lenovo (not the One Touch Recovery, but another package whose name I cannot recall now) did work quite well, and I was able to make an image of the system, and because it was in Windows, it wrote to my drive at USB3 speeds.

Again, thanks for the reply.