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Cloning a boot drive, keeping original as backup questions.
I currently have windows 7 installed on a partition of a 2 gig SSHD. I just purchased an SSD slightly larger than the Windows partition on the SSHD. Once I've cloned windows onto the SSD, I'm trying to figure out how to go about the following... I want to leave the original windows installation intact and update it weekly to keep it as a backup in case the SSD ever fails. I assume I can't leave the original drive as is because it will also be setup as a boot drive. Unless there is a better method, I think I can just go into diskpart and set that partition on the SSHD to inactive. I'm then wondering if the SSD ever fails, should it be as simple as going back into diskpart and making that partition on the SSHD active again and windows will see it as a boot drive again?