Items 5 and 6 is not quite right…
Your Rescue Media needs to be a separate BOOTABLE Device like a removable thumb drive. The creation of the rescue media DELETES everything on the target device during the rescue media creation process.
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My Rescue Media was created on a Sandisk 16GB thumb drive. When you run MR, you should have a thumb drive inserted into a USB port on your computer. Using MR, Select the menu option to create the rescue media and point to your thumb drive. The process will DELETE everythng on the thumb drive, install everything needed to BOOT into MR from the thumb drive and make the thumb drive bootable.
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Boot your computer with the thumb drive inserted into a USB port and using BIOS to point to the inserted thumb drive as the BOOT Device, start your computer with the rescue media and it will start up in MR. You will then be ready to recover your image to your new MVMe drive that has been installed in your computer.
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I think that should get you on the right track. Be sure and TEST TEST TEST…
You can test boot and recover over and over until you are happy and confident in the procedure.
The best thing about this method is that your ORIGINAL C Drive will be out of the system when testing.
Hope this helps
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EDIT: Also, there is a menu selection in MR (on the rescue media) that allows you to FIX BOOT DRIVE if for some reason the new boot drive fails to boot properly. You would select that menu option, then a pop up will appear and allow you to point to the NEW NVMe drive and then press OK… MR on the recue media will then attempt to make the new boot drive bootable. It worked for me a couple of times. This is only needed if your recovered disk fails to boot.