Hi
I have just built a new PC: for the first time with the operating system set on a M.2 NVMe drive
On my previous machine I had my OS placed on a SSD - and in order to secure it I was using Acronis True Image available in the restored section of the Hiren's Boot CD 15.2 [Restored Edition 1.1.]. This meant that I could do whatever I wanted within the operating system, even to the point of completely braking it - and still have the comfort of being able to restore a version of it that was A-OK from an image, because that CD was a bootable one. But that old Acronis does not handle NVMe drives - while the new Hiren's Boot CD PE x64 1.0.1 has a version of it that [if I remember correctly] cannot create a new image [plus it takes forever to boot from because of some issues]
Thus I need a replacement. I need a software that creates images of whole volumes / drives to an image and restores them to the same and other drives - but is not run from the level of operating system. Such software has to be available in a form of a bootable CD and see all of the files and preferably on all kind of drives [or at least HDDs, SSDs and NVMe connected in all of the available ways]. Because how will I perform a restoration process if I cannot run the software because the operating system [for whatever reason] will not allow me to do it; or the coping process will leave out hidden / system files?
Unfortunately all I can find is some outdated stuff without support for NVMe drives and / or runs when executed from an operating system
I have just built a new PC: for the first time with the operating system set on a M.2 NVMe drive
On my previous machine I had my OS placed on a SSD - and in order to secure it I was using Acronis True Image available in the restored section of the Hiren's Boot CD 15.2 [Restored Edition 1.1.]. This meant that I could do whatever I wanted within the operating system, even to the point of completely braking it - and still have the comfort of being able to restore a version of it that was A-OK from an image, because that CD was a bootable one. But that old Acronis does not handle NVMe drives - while the new Hiren's Boot CD PE x64 1.0.1 has a version of it that [if I remember correctly] cannot create a new image [plus it takes forever to boot from because of some issues]
Thus I need a replacement. I need a software that creates images of whole volumes / drives to an image and restores them to the same and other drives - but is not run from the level of operating system. Such software has to be available in a form of a bootable CD and see all of the files and preferably on all kind of drives [or at least HDDs, SSDs and NVMe connected in all of the available ways]. Because how will I perform a restoration process if I cannot run the software because the operating system [for whatever reason] will not allow me to do it; or the coping process will leave out hidden / system files?
Unfortunately all I can find is some outdated stuff without support for NVMe drives and / or runs when executed from an operating system