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

[Mel_P]

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

 

[Mel_P]

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

 

[Mel_P]

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