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Create duplicate O/S installation - easiest way?
I have (or soon will) a new system for gaming. The drives I've chosen are 2 x 480GB SSDs, each with a smaller partition for the O/S and a larger one for the programmes (MS FS9 on one, FSX on the other).
As I have had an SSD die on me before, I want to make this setup a bit more fail-safe by having the O/S (Win7 x64 - or it may be Win10 x64 in the end, but I guess that won't effect the basics of this question?) cloned on the 2nd SSD, in the smaller parτition (so if one SSD does die, I can still boot using the other).
What's the easiest way to achieve this? Make an image of the O/S partition on the first SSD (when everything is installed and running OK) and install it to the second SSD? Or is there a better way?
What's then the easiest way to set up a dual boot screen at startup so that I always have the option of which instance of the O/S to boot into?
Many thanks,
Martin