Making a bootable clone of O/S On NVME ssd to sata 2.5 Sdd for disaster recovery
My current O/S needs a few important updates service stack and SHA2, due to my paid AV vendor introducing SHA2 for update's to the application modules etc , the o/s win7 is currently installed on the NVME ssd and working fine, but i intend on making a bootable clone of it and putting it on a SATA 2.5 inch SSD which i can use to recover the system disk back onto the nvme should the ms updates render the system non-bootable or cause other major issues ,
From reading the kb info, it appears i should be able to achieve this task fairly easily? By using the active clone feature, my question is would the NVMe drive need to be removed to boot from the SSD,(for testing ) ? and in the event i needed to recover the clone back onto the NVMe would i be correct in assuming i would need to make a bootable rescue media USB drive? Or would i be able to boot into the cloned SSD and repeat the active clone back to the NVMe SSD ,to restore the system ??
I'm also a little confused as to which is the best method clone or full disk back up?


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Thank's for your reply,I wasn't sure if a disk image would be bootable, was why i thought the cloning method would have been a better option, this bootable rescue disk media works in win 7 Which is now UEFI boot, Thank's to other forum members and i think yourself, I'll order some cheap SanDisk flash drives, for the bootable media should they be formatted as fat 32 or NTFS?
Also, using bootable media creation option within ATI 2020 what type of media will it create on to a flash drive Linux based or windows based this is a Win 7 O/S, Just that some say the Linux isn't as reliable
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Recovery media must be formatted as fat 32. Most smaller capacity thumb drives are formatted as fat 32 but you should make sure they are before usage. If you need to change the format use Windows format option to do so.
The media creation tool in the TI app creates by default a WinRE based media via the Simple option and selecting the thumb drive from the list presented. The other options you will see are fro creating Linux based media, a Windows WIM file that you have previously created, and burn the media to CD/DVD. The Simple option and select flash drive should work for you.
The tool will make the flash drive bootable and install a trimmed down instance of True Image which can be used to perform backup, recovery, and a tools selection that is available for certain scenarios.
When you create your backup image file just make sure to select all the partitions on the source disk. When you restore that image to the new drive make sure to select all partitions again for recovery.
That's it.
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So no need to download the bootable media ISO from the Acronis site, and then make it bootable with Rufus ect, which i suppose is doing the same thing, apart from rufus automatically formatting the flash drive , The last time i did something similar to this ,the win 7 o/s became deactivated due to it detecting a change of HDD but maybe it was changing the type of boot from legacy mbr to uefi , i can't remember the reason for it
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Don't use Rufus or other third party software here.
No need for downloading the ISO from your account, it is Linux anyway and may lack support for NVMe.
Using the procedure I outlined will use the Windows recovery tool to build media based on your OS install a d boot mode. It's called Simple for a reason.
You should not experience any problem with Windows activation issues using this method.
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Thank's I shall report back when the new SSD i have ordered has arrived as i don't have a empty drive to big enough to recover to test i have a working backup My old 850 256gb pro is a bit too small for the recovery to fit on
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