How to create an image drive for the XP941

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Hello to everyone!

My concern is on how to create an image of my Windows 8.1 Pro install in my Samsung XP941 Pci-e M.2 SSD.

This is what I have done so far, I have Acronis 2012 on a USB don’t remember if it’s set as UEFI or legacy, but so far my ASUS X99 Deluxe UEFI don’t let boot with this USB and before I had the PCI-e card install I could use this USB to boot and create image of any Window install that I had, if I pull the PCI-e out then I can boot from the USB. With the card on I have try to disable CSM on and off and no luck, I even disable the secure key (unload) and no luck as well.

Now I question is can I do this image with the Windows 8.1 software?, but in my case the pci-e m.2 that I have is a 512GB and spare drive is 256GB would can Windows back up to this smaller drive and be able to restore from it?, if yes, do I have to shrink the Windows drive first to capacity of my destination drive?, thanks for the info. “Merry Christmas”.

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According to my knowledge the drive size doesn’t matter, when you create an image of its content.

AFAIK this is not required.

Merry Christmas!