Got a new Mini PC, swapped out the NVME drive so I could experiment with different OS’s. I wanted to keep the original NVME that came with Windows 11 on it. Is there a Windows app that can make an image of this NVME with an untouched Win11 so I can re-image later and setup Windows if I wanted?

I’m planning to experiment with creating my own NAS on the mini PC, then try other things like a dedicated VPN box.

I didn’t want to lose the Windows 11 setup that came preinstalled on the NVME so I swapped out the drive. I currently have that drive in an external case with USB C so I can connect it to my Windows computer. Is there an app that I can use in Windows 11 that could make an image of the drive that I could restore later if I wanted to use the Mini PC with Windows 11, the way it was shipped?

The app I looked at, Clonezilla, needs to be installed on a USB and you need to boot the PC from it. Is there an app that can run in Windows 11, where I could just select the external NVME drive and have it save a bootable image to a drive on my computer?