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Hi,
Currently I am using a regular 500 GB SATA 7200 rpm HDD as a boot drive.
I clone that HDD using Acronis software so that I always have an exact copy of that drive in case boot drive runs into a problem.

But I am getting a new PC with 512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD as a boot drive.
My question is can I clone this new HDD on a regular 500 GB SATA drive ? They have different volumes. One is 512 GB & other is 500 GB.
If yes, then if new 512 GB PCIe NVMe SSD crashes, can I use the 500 GB SATA HDD to clone it back on to 512 GB NVMe drive ?
If not what other choices do I have ?
Reinstalling Windows & settings & programs takes a lot of time so I have been using clonning HDDs as a very easy solution.

Thank You

As long as you don't use more than 500GB on the new drive, Acronis should have no trouble cloning back and forth (when you are practising going from small to larger, you may need to extend to fill all spaces, but may be just keeping the partition at 500GB makes things easier, let that go as over provisioning may be?)

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