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I do have a Macrium image, but I have found in the past (including Macrium) then when it comes time to make use of the image (fortunately, very rarely), the process fails, or the image is pronounced as 'invalid' (even though it was validated after it was created), and then I have in any case to reinstall Windows from scratch and start again. I don't have a lot of confidence in these programmes to be honest (though I know some people totally disagree).
I am installing a new 2TB internal SSD later today.. I wonder whether to make a partition on it big enough for the Windows installation (but what about the smaller 'recovery partition'?).
As I say, I would want both boot drives to be easily available. I can't permanently unplug one of the SSDs in any case because of data on the other (non-Windows) partition.
I did successfully make a dual boot (Win7/XP) on my other PC, which is encouraging!, but I am very 'iffy' about tampering with boot repairs and so on on this PC, in practice I have had things go 'wrong' too many times in the past. Maybe I should stick with images (I keep one Macrium image, and one made with Windows 7 own image tool. I used to use all sorts of other image backup software too, but ended up removing all of them when they proved less than 100% reliable).
Thanks.