Which CLONING SOFTWARE for Dual-Boot SATA-to-NVMe Success?

[BonzaiDuck]

I've posted a few other threads through the blood, sweat and tears of Win7-Z170 configuration and NVMe progress.

Discovered that my 2016 version of EaseUS Partition Master/Manager borks the Win-10 part of a dual-boot NVMe clone, and misaligns the NVMe to give 2/3 known spec performance.

This much I know: There's nothing wrong with the Sammy 960 Pro configured as PCIE x4 -- which I received yesterday. Formatted as data disk within Windows installed with Sammy NVMe driver v.2.1, the benchies are stellar.

I MUST do this successfully.

Calling for anyone -- whether Acronis, Paragon, Macrium or competitor tech-support, Anandtech members who may know -- anybody! -- Tell me which software utility works properly for this!

Or tell me procedures for a known software cloning solution.

Everything is UEFI configured; drives are all GPT-initialized, partitioned, formatted and working.

For me, the fallback is a reinstallation of Win 10 after a successful and proper Win 7 clone. But there MUST be SOMETHING that can achieve complete success for the whole dual-boot setup.

Too much work invested over 3 months tweaking and perfecting this dual-boot configuration on SATA SSD.

The Need for Speed can leave you to Bleed! Soon I hope someone gives this a read!

Help!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

What if I use Windows 10 (which has native NVMe driver) to create rescue disk and full drive image, then unplug the SATA and restore to NVMe?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

YES! YES! YES!!!

MACRIUM REFLECT "FREE" v.6 December 2016!!!

YES! YES! YES!

OK!!!

For any cautious soul who is only first visiting this situation:

Dual-Boot Windows 7/10 on AHCI SATA SSD
Want to clone the entire Shibola Enchilada to a NVMe M.2 PCI-E x4 and remove the SATA SSD

I can only verify what worked for me, but you can take your chances.

For instance, I decided to install the cloning software and make the clone within Windows 10 -- NOT Windows 7.

MACRIUM recognizes dual-boot disk configurations and recommends how to make the clone.

Second thing -- When you wipe a 960 Pro clean and then create a "single" Basic Partition and Simple Volume -- Disk Management only shows the simple volume. But the cloning software, whether EaseUS or Macrium, shows a 128 MB "unformatted" area preceding the simple volume. Don't delete this when you make your clone -- leave it alone.

MACRIUM doesn't provide cautions about shutting down afterward and removing the source disk, nor does it do so automatically in this free version. But that would be the next step after completing the global clone of the mult-boot system.

Reboot to Win 10 from the boot menu to verify after removing the source disk, plugging in and starting up.

Then test that the menu will also raise Windows 7 after a restart.

Good to go, Golden Show.

MACRIUM REFLECT is the way . . .
And NOW WE KNOW!!

All is wonderful with 960 PRO!!