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Universal Restore vs Rescue Media Builder; doing a backup and restore to effect a 'clone'

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What am I doing ?

I only have one M.2 PCIe slot in my laptop.  And a separate SATA drive onboard also.

I'm doing a full part backup of disk 0 and bootable volumes to the secondary onboard SATA and then using Acronis True Image on bootable volume to restore to a new M.2 drive plugged into the slot .. disk brand new .. all unallocated.

The procedure worked via True Image on bootable volume.  I built it by iterating through the Universal Restore ISO wizard build (Universal Restore on the ISO is unable to find an OS..) Should I have used Rescue Media Builder instead ?  What is the difference between the two ?

However, separate issue is new M.2 disk not seen by BIOS .. yet Acronis restored to it fine. 
Is there anything I should have done/should do in the procedure to, in a round about way, effect a 'clone' (clone by end result.. but must be a backup and then restore due to only one M.2 port available on the compute footprint)

I need to mark it as bootable ? Though it restored the lot.. even the GPT section pretty sure ..

Thoughts/comments/feedback/help ?

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For the situation that you have described, i.e. to migrate from one M.2 PCie disk drive to a second drive when only one host port is available, then you should be using the Acronis Rescue Media to do a recovery of a full disk & partitions backup of the source M.2 disk to the new target drive.

The full disk & partitions backup of the source M.2 disk can be done with the ATI application running within Windows and stored on your SATA HDD drive.

To use the Acronis Rescue media for the recovery, this needs to be booted using the same BIOS mode as used by your Windows OS.  You can determine this by running the msinfo32 command in Windows and look at the value shown for BIOS mode which will be either Legacy (older systems) or UEFI for most modern systems.

See KB 59877: Acronis True Image 2017: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media for more help on booting the rescue media in the correct mode.

You should not need to use the Acronis Universal Restore tool or boot from that media, as this is only really intended for a situation where you are restoring an OS backup image to very different hardware with a different computer motherboard, CPU, controllers / adapters etc.  Recovering to a new disk drive connected to the same computer hardware does not need AUR.

The key other consideration here is that when you boot from the Acronis Rescue Media (using the correct BIOS mode) that you can see your M.2 PCIe drive - if this is not visible, then the media being used may not have the required device drivers to support this type of drive. 

Thanks @SteveSmith .. but doing this 'backup' and 'restore' in this way.. full part list and all.. definitely makes the destination bootable ?

That is the key purpose of using Backup & Restore providing all the required hidden/system partitions are included in the backup image and are restored.

I know this is a little old but wouldnt you HAVE to use the universal restore if currently booting from BIOS on sata? My understanding is that AUR supports switching from BIOS boot to UEFI boot during restore which is necessary because an m.2 slot is ONLY bootable using UEFI boot type..

 

nevermind, I read it wrong