Windows 10: HELP!! Win10 System Disk Image Restoration Fail (0x80070057)

Hi, everyone!

It's been forever since I've been here, so please forgive my evidently-first-post call-for-help.

I was in the process of migrating my system from a 500GB SSD to a 1TB SSD, and through that simply using the Windows in-built Disk Image Backup utility that was brought-over by Microsoft from Windows 7 (but deprecated) would be an easy way of migrating the disk volume to the new drive, and using Paragon's Partition Manager would be able to adjust the volume size; I've used this program previously to migrate from a 250GB to a 500GB drive in Windows 7 in a similar scenario with no problem...which, sadly, I trusted would work this time.

I have downloaded at least a dozen copies & versions of "recovery" programs, and none of them have been able to see or gain access to the .VHDX files created on my external USB backup drive. You name it: Acronis, Macurium, EasUS, AOMEI, etc. If a guide on restoring from these backups is on the net, chances are I've read it (even the 3 that are in German - thanks, Chrome translate!). I've put the system to it's exact hardware config when the backups were made (Yes, I'm aware that Disk Imaging *is* hardware-aware)

15 years of work, *safely* locked away. Projects & potential work *frozen*. What angers me the most is that I took precautions by making two Disk Images on different drives within 30min of each other. What's even worse is that I could have installed one of these programs and used THEIR archiving programs and not counted on Microsoft's capabilities.

So, here's what I'm looking for; I'm looking for an absolute worked-for-me-repeatedly solution. I'm looking for a software package that will ingest the vhdx files and output to a new hard drive, or a process that will do the same. I don't relish the idea of needing to completely re-installing Windows 10 + all of the years of software that I've installed on this system since the Windows XP x64 & Vista days up to the last 6 months of a project I've been working on. I'm aware that I can re-install Windows and mount the vhdx file and then copy the files in the container over to a new drive, but that doesn't make things bootable, etc.

This is a "Hail Mary" folks. I'm literally at the end of my rope.

Thanks in advance!

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System Image restore fails: "0x80070057 the parameter is incorrect"

Hello,

The Error code 0x80070057 the parameter is incorrect can be caused by an corrupted restore file. It would be great if you can tell us more about your concern. Kindly answer the following:

• Did you notice any system setting changes prior to the issue?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

Please tell us all the troubleshooting steps you've done so we can avoid repeats.

 

Windows system image restore failed. The parameter is incorrect. Error code 0x80070057

But you are sending me back into my original problem. If I boot from USB installation disk, I got the error at the end of restore

Windows system image restore failed. The parameter is incorrect. Error code 0x80070057

 

System Image restore fails: "0x80070057 the parameter is incorrect"

When trying to restore my Windows 10 system disk from a System Image, I received the error message "0x80070057 the parameter is incorrect". The restore was c95% complete at that point and the auto-repair offered by the system could not recover.

After that failure, I could not reboot from the system disk.

After some research, I made a second attempt to restore the System Image and selected the option to repartition the system disk. That attempt failed with the same error message, having almost completed.

I'm:

- running Windows 10 Home Edition with the latest updates applied

- booting from a System Repair CD

- attempting to restore from a 10 day old System Image stored on an internal HDD

- restoring to an internal SSD

I've found several references to the error on this forum and on others too. However, none of the offered solutions seem applicable or accessible in my particular predicament.

Is the situation retrievable by restoring the recent System Image? If so, how would I circumvent this error?