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I have a question that I knew the answer to when I had a PC with an old skool BIOS, because I did it and it worked fine. But I think I tried it once or twice when I got a UEFI PC and it failed.
Anyway, what I did back then was have Windows XP and Windows 7 installed, dual booting off two physical hard disks. Both operating systems were installed with just their own disk installed, neither was aware of the other. I didn't want the Windows bootloader, I wanted to use the BIOS to select which OS to boot and that's what I did. I had and still have a 3 PC licence for Acronis True Image, a copy of which was installed in each OS. Back then, I booted into one OS and took an image of the other or 'pasted' the other back onto its partition. Worked great, could restore either OS within 10-15 minutes. This seemed better and quicker as you were taking an image of a system while its files weren't active. And that was when I had any game installed to the same drive as the OS that hosted it, so more drive space used and larger image files.
Fast forward to now and the set up is as follows:
250GB SSD - Windows 7
120GB SSD - Windows 10
500GB SSD - Steam/Origin game files
500GB SSD - Steam/Origin game files
So the OS drives aren't very full at all as all the big game files reside on both 500GB SSDs, and each Steam/Origin game client in W7 and W10 points to the directories on both of the 500GB SSDs, taking a snapshot would mean a smaller image, which is good.
The question is whether there is anything in particular I need to be doing when doing what I used to do (which worked) with a PC with a UEFI BIOS. Because like I say, I did try it once or twice but it failed. It said the image restore had been successful, but I got a boot error. Annoyingly, I can't remember what that was as it was a while back. I have True Image installed in both W7 and W10.
There must be somebody on here who is already doing what I'm wanting to do, so any input is well appreciated.
Anyway, what I did back then was have Windows XP and Windows 7 installed, dual booting off two physical hard disks. Both operating systems were installed with just their own disk installed, neither was aware of the other. I didn't want the Windows bootloader, I wanted to use the BIOS to select which OS to boot and that's what I did. I had and still have a 3 PC licence for Acronis True Image, a copy of which was installed in each OS. Back then, I booted into one OS and took an image of the other or 'pasted' the other back onto its partition. Worked great, could restore either OS within 10-15 minutes. This seemed better and quicker as you were taking an image of a system while its files weren't active. And that was when I had any game installed to the same drive as the OS that hosted it, so more drive space used and larger image files.
Fast forward to now and the set up is as follows:
250GB SSD - Windows 7
120GB SSD - Windows 10
500GB SSD - Steam/Origin game files
500GB SSD - Steam/Origin game files
So the OS drives aren't very full at all as all the big game files reside on both 500GB SSDs, and each Steam/Origin game client in W7 and W10 points to the directories on both of the 500GB SSDs, taking a snapshot would mean a smaller image, which is good.
The question is whether there is anything in particular I need to be doing when doing what I used to do (which worked) with a PC with a UEFI BIOS. Because like I say, I did try it once or twice but it failed. It said the image restore had been successful, but I got a boot error. Annoyingly, I can't remember what that was as it was a while back. I have True Image installed in both W7 and W10.
There must be somebody on here who is already doing what I'm wanting to do, so any input is well appreciated.
I hope it all works as normal from now on.