Windows 10: Win 10 Image Restore

Hello all,


I am trying to create a disk image of my Win 10 system, including drivers and applications. My intent is to create a master image which can be imaged on all new computers in my organization. Is this possible in Windows and / or is it possible with other software such as Ghost or ? Any advice would be helpful.

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Restoring Windows 10 Image using Macrium Reflect


In addition to the above. Here's my suggestion in step by step.
I assume you have Macrium Installed in your current HD and already made a backup copy.

1. Connect your new HD via USB port and boot up.
2. Run Macrium, click on Restore tab then select the Backup Image that you made to restore
3. click on "select a different target disk" then select your new HD as destination
   
   
   
4. Proceed to restore then Shutdown and disconnect the old HD and replace with the new HD
5. Boot up with your new HD.

 

Win 7 image restore breaks ability to see Win 10 image backups


I have a multi-boot system, XP Pro (32 bit), XP Pro X64 (64 bit), Win 7 Pro (64 bit), Win 10 Pro (64 bit). Each OS is on a separate hard drive and partition. The C: partition is boot only (no operating system on it).

I did a system image backup from Win 10 and also from Win 7. Once I do a Win 7 image restore using Win 7 repair (dvd), the Win 10 images backups no longer appear in the list of backups if I later run Win 10 repair or Win 7 repair.

The workaround for this bug is to do a system image backup from Win 7 and include the Win 10 partition in the Win 7 image backup (to Win 7, the Win 10 partition is a "data" partition). The the Win 7 repair will restore the Win 10 partition unless restore to "non-system" partitions is turned off. I confirmed this works by formatting both the Win 7 and Win 10 partitions before doing a repair / restore test.

What I don't understand is what the Win 7 restore changes to my system that prevents the Win 10 backup system images from appearing in the list of image backups. The Win 10 image folders are still present on my hard drive(s).

 

Windows 10 System image restore.

Plenty of warts....

I remember once all most used programs disappeared from the start menu list

I restored a system image I had where they all were there = Of course I was disconnected from the internet when I restored the image and yes most used programs were listed

As soon as I connected to the internet they were gone again

Restored the image again

Didn't boot to win-10 for a month or so and they didn't disappear then so it just shows how weird win-10 can be and how cool system images can be using the right utility to create them