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Best way to regularly clone NVME drive to SSD?

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Hi All,

What is the best way to make a bootable clone of my system drive? 

I am running Windows 10 and my system drive is an NVME drive and my backup clone is an SSD. They are both 238GB in size. The SSD is connected via SATA (internal) and the NVME is connected through the NVME port directly on the motherboard. 

I have been using the Clone Tool in Acronis TI 2021 but when I test the clone and boot from it, it sometimes does not boot. Is this because they are connected through different interfaces ie. NVMe vs SATA? Or is there some other file that needs to be installed on the clone drive (the SSD)? 

I make this clone each month and I am concerned I am not doing this correctly. I would like to be able to boot from the clone at any moment in case my system drive ever fails. 

I would like to know that I am doing this the best way and correctly. I would appreciate your suggestions. 

Much appreciated,

Felix

 

 

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Felix, are you attempting to boot to the SATA drive while the NVMe drive is still in the system? If so, that could be problematic.

A clone disk is and identical copy of one disk to another.  If you have two identical disks in one PC and boot that PC then you risk Windows seeing both disks as the same disk and having what is know as a disk signature crash in which case boot fails at a minimum.  This can also result in boot file corruption on one of both disks making boot to either impossible.

You need to remove one of the disks after a clone operation in order to avert this problem.  If you wish to test the newly cloned disk you need to remove the other disk entirely and install the new clone to test boot the clone.  If you continue with your current practice you risk the consequence of ending up with a system that will not boot.

Thank you so much! I did not know that. I will try booting from the clone after removing the NVME drive. 
 

Much appreciated!

Felix