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Create bootable media on non-usb disk

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ATI2019, Win10 Pro Desktop

ATI2019 only allow creation of bootable media on USB device.  I have an empty partition on an SSD that I can use for this, but I have no way as of ATI2019 of placing the bootable info on it.  I was able to use Clone Disk to copy from a USB stick to that partition on ATI2018, but Clone Disk now (on 2019 versus 2018) always says I have errors on the bootable USB stick when I attempt to clone it to the SSD partition.  The bootable USB stick is recognized by File Explorer, and it works perfectly when booted to.

Why is Create Bootable Media limited to USB devices?  Seems like using a spare partition on an internal disk for restoring is an ideal solution.

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George, welcome to these User Forums.

Sorry but creating the Rescue Media on the same physical disk, albeit on a separate partition, has never been offered by ATI as an option.  The nearest option has been the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (ASRM) that gives a F11 key prompt at boot to allow booting into a Linux OS based recovery environment.

Clone should never be used as you have indicated as there are too many opportunities to get it wrong and destroy the OS partition on the same drive.

With ATI 2019, you have the new option to create a Survival Kit where a 2GB FAT32 partition can be created at the start of a USB HDD (or SSD) drive, and the Rescue Media put into that 2GB partition.

The key advantage of using USB Rescue Media is for those situations where your main OS drive suffers a fatal error, where the disk drive fails as a whole unit, and where booting from the USB media allows recovery to a new, empty replacement drive.

If you really want to create the Rescue Media on your spare SSD partition, then make a disk backup of your USB Rescue Media, then try restoring that image to the SSD partition instead of using clone to do this.  You will need to add the Rescue Media to the Windows Boot Manager options as an additional boot menu item - I would suggest using EasyBCD to do this.