I use the Paragon Product because its free AND it works for MAC or PC. Download Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition 64bit [URL] Download Paragon Backup & Recovery Community Edition 32bit. [URL] [URL] [URL]# I have also use Macrium reflect free 7 but that's windows only. [URL] Been using ADK all along and it works fine. And the Dell PE drivers [URL] You must extract the drivers from the cab file to use them. I prefer 7zip but there are other options for this as well. [URL] Many PE boot media will not SEE any drives to use without the PE F6 mass storage drivers pointed to or integrated into the PE image. That information is usually the one that stops people dead in their tracks. [URL] The enterprise support people will provide an onsite dell engineer to help with this but mere mortals don't have that kind of money. The Onsite 24 x 7 x 365 , 4 hour response engineer contract costs $248,000 a year.  There are usually 6 people for this.  One for each 8 hour shift and a backup.  
I'm helping someone remotely to learn to back up their XPS 8940 system using Paragon backup and then how to restore the backup, if ever needed, by booting Windows PE from a USB stick for recovery. Every BIOS is somewhat different and I know how to do this with all the computers I own. But I'm not sure what the BIOS settings should be on his XPS 8940, and he's 700km away. Here's what I thought would work, but did not: Press F2 at startup to enter BIOSGoto:  System Configuration -> USB Configuration -> Enable Boot Support = EnablePlug in the USB stickSave the settings and restart the computerPress F12 at bootup and check to see if the USB stick is listed.Click on it to boot into the Windows PE recovery to restore a backup. Having read the System Setup section of the XPS 8940 manual I was expecting to see the USB stick listed on the F12 boot options. Perhaps I missed a setting ... "Bring up the one-time boot menu by pressing F12 key. The one-time boot menu displays the devices that you can boot from" Does anyone know of other BIOS settings that need to be changed? Thank you for any help. Otherwise we'll set up a ZOOM session with a webcam on his laptop to check the various BIOS options as well as the F12 menu options. The things we do during COVID ...  
XPS 8940, Booting Windows PE from USB stick?