M.2 drive is failing, can't clone. Can I use the hidden partitions from May 2022 with Windows from October 2022?

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RussellAlexander

I thought my motherboard was screwing up, but it turns out my SSD (NVMe M.2) has been bad all along. So I can't clone from it now, even using Ubuntu or Clonezilla. I painstakingly copied everything to a SATA drive, directory by directory, and replaced files that couldn't be copied from a backup I made in May of 2022. So I have a (hopefully) complete copy on a SATA drive, and the backup I made in May. I bought a new NVMe drive, and am cloning the May backup to it. The plan is to then replace the C partition with the one I made this weekend on the SATA drive. So, I know the hidden partition

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