Windows 10 Cloned on External nvme drive

[RussD]

Hi All, For safety's sake I Cloned my Win 10 onto a NVME drive inside a caddy. So far I not need to use it. Reason I put on an external is because to get to my internal nvme I have to take out my Huge cpu cooler.
If my Internal nvme goes bad or if I install Win11 then find I hate it. (of which I did once before) how do I install this cloned backup on the external nvme to the internal nvme.??
Hope you can follow what I said lol..

 

[Mujja]

What tool did you use to copy clone the NVMe to the external drive?
Does the tool have a restore function?

Without knowing what method you used to clone the drive and what format the backup is saved as, we can't really answer how to restore.

 

[Nemiyen]

Presuming your clone process went well, in theory, you could just remove the nvme drive from the external caddy and stick it straight into your PC where the existing nvme drive is.

You'll end up losing everything from the clone onwards though, but that might not be too much of an issue.

I'd probably just recommend re cloning back to a new drive from the external one though, presuming the clone is good.