TeraByte Unlimited

I want to take a complete image of my laptop's SSD drive, and then restore it if required later.

The drive is a Samsung SSD 250GB 970 Evo Plus (250GB).
It dual-boots into Linux Mint22 and Windows 10, and has 6 partitions (listed in Image for Windows):
1. SYSTEM (260MiB) EFI System (FAT-32) **b active**
2. Microsoft reserved partition (128 MiB)
3. (D:) Recovery (500MiB) Windows RE (NTFS)
4. (E:) Windows (130.79 GiB) NTFS
5. Windows RE Tools (861 MiB) Windows RE (NTFS)
6. (100.38 GiB) Ext 2/3/4

To image this drive I intend to boot the laptop using WinRE v3.55.
in Image for Windows, goto Settings and select Simple Operations and leave all other settings as they are.
Then Select the Samsung drive to backup, and press go.

This completes ok, but before doing a simple ops restore to test it all works, can someone sanity-check what I am proposing?

One question: The settings page has 'Use new Windows MBR' ticked. Not sure what that means, or if it is compatible with a UEFI motherboard.

Hope someone can help!

Martin

that will work, or you can enable simple mode before creating the boot media and it will be in simple mode when booted. You can just leave the new mbr ticked (no need to use the older one), also, it's not used when booting in UEFI mode.

TeraByte Support wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 1:31 am that will work, or you can enable simple mode before creating the boot media and it will be in simple mode when booted. You can just leave the new mbr ticked (no need to use the older one), also, it's not used when booting in UEFI mode.

Thank you.

One further question if I may? Will the simple operations restore reinstate correct dual-booting if it somehow gets corrupted? if e.g. I send the laptop for repair, and it comes back NOT dual-booting - just booting into Windows?

a full drive restore would put it back the way it was backed up, so unless it's a firmware entry, the items on the disk would be the same.