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Thanks for the comprehensive explanation :-)

Thanks, I get it. So, having booted into one of the two systems, how would I set up a dual-boot menu?

System Restore won't complete, just stalls with a message saying it's proceeding.

Thanks, that sounds like a plan. But after replacing the 250GB SSD and rebooting, will the system recognize both OSs?

A friend was given a computer that's running Windows 10 Enterprise N. The system runs but not 100%. One problem is that System Restore is damaged, so I can't back it up. But there are numerous other little glitches so I plan to set up a fresh W10 Professional running alongside Enterprise. Once...

Seba, thanks, I didn't know that. Are you able to post a link?

Iopri, tcsenter and Shmee: Thanks for your helpful explanations, you've answered all my questions. It sounds like I can forget about using the NGFF slot on my UGreen card. No worries, I don't think my local NZ supplier has any of that type of SSD, anyway. Re the bifurcation spec, I don't see a...

https://www.pbtech.com/product/ADPUGR70504/UGREEN-UG-70504-M2-NVME-to-PCI-E30-Express-Card-wi I'm using this card to mount a 250GB Samsung 970 NVME EVOPlus SSD. The card has two slots, one marked 'NVME', in which I've mounted my Samsung SSD, and the other slot marked 'NGFF'. Apparently NVME...

In2Photos: Because, as I noted above, I only have one M2.SSD slot and that's occupied by my system disk.

Guys, thanks for your further comments. Regarding dual-booting generally, I've had 7,10 and 11 all on one SATA HDD some time back. I've also had 7 and 10 dual booting from an M2 SSD. But I must have used GPT partitioning and had the BIOS set the same way, without knowing I needed to. My current...

Heads up: Nope, no joy. Rufus worked OK and I copied the Win10 iso there in MBR mode, but the problem is that the target drive's three partitions - System.Reserved, C and the new partition - are all MBR and W10 will only install to GPT. Apparently you can't change only one partition to GPT...

TheELF: Thanks, I'll grab the latest version and try it. EDIT: Ooops. Rufus latest version is 4.5 but last version that works with W7 is 3.22. I guess I could have prepped the USB in a W10 pc using 4.5 but I thought maybe it then might not work in installing the W10 iso in my W7 machine. So I'll...

mikeymicek: Thanks for your comments. You may be right about the W10 install balking due to the setup of the installation media. I most often use Rufus, but in this case I used Ventoy. It's on a 32GB Apacer USB3. It hadn't occurred to me that I could select the installation to be either MBR or...

Actually, my requirement is a little more complex. The C system drive holds W7. I plan to shrink its partition and create another partition, around 125GB, in which I'll install W10 and have a dual boot system. This allows me to keep my W7 system and experiment with W10. But because the SSD M2...

Thanks, sounds easy but just clone it to what? Or where?