Universal Restore vs Rescue Media Builder; doing a backup and restore to effect a 'clone'
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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Thanks @SteveSmith .. but doing this 'backup' and 'restore' in this way.. full part list and all.. definitely makes the destination bootable ?
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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.
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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
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