Just made a clone of my Yoga Drive. How do I use it if my OS drive fails or corrupts?

Mel_P · 14 Jun 2017 at 23:00

Hello. I have made a safety backup clone of my Yoga 128GB SSD as an insurance measure, e.g. if the Windows Creator messes up my OS.

I cannot take my Yoga apart to replace the OS drive with the clone as its just too difficult and the SSD inside the Yoga is a miniature jobby.

How do I use the new SSD clone to copy it back to the existing internal drive (if I ever need to) please?

With my desktop it's easy - just swop SSDs. With an Yoga laptop it's not so easy - taking it apart to tr to swap drives would probably ruin it! There must be some sort of recovery process?

Advice please? Thanks, Mel

demonix · 15 Jun 2017 at 17:42

You should have created a backup image and not cloned it to another drive as most of these kinds of software would have a live variant that will run outside of the installed OS and allow the backup to be restored back to the SSD (although you probably could do the same with the clone image by cloning it back to the SSD if the software used has some stand alone live variant).

Mel_P · 15 Jun 2017 at 17:52

I actually created 3 backups:

- a windows backup which also includes a disc image
- an Acronis backup of the whole drive
- a clone onto an SSD using Acronis

Hopefully one of these will be useful if (say) the creators update goes t---sup? Or anything else happens and I lose the OS.

As I say for a desktop - I can just take out the OS drive and slip the clone in.

The only recovery I have ever done "for real" was when I ran Windows home server. An update went wrong and I was able to recover the OS drive using WHS.

Mel

demonix · 15 Jun 2017 at 18:00

Acronis has an option to create media that acts like a live linux CD (what they used is actually based on linux) to allow recovery to be done (although in the case of the yoga, you'll have to find some way to put it on a USB drive) and you can use that to clone the clone back to the internal SSD that the yoga (or even use the backup to do the same thing).

Mel_P · 15 Jun 2017 at 18:32

I also created a USB recovery tool - so it looks like I am prepared for disaster recovery (if needed).