Windows 10: Can a W11 System Backup Image be restored to a laptop running W10?

Sorry the below is a bit long winded but I wanted to include all steps that I actioned…Laptop purchased with W11 and created W11 updated backup image to internal and external drives.Downgraded from W11 to W10 and created W10 updated backup image to internal and external drives.So I have both W10 and W11 updated system backup images on my internal and external drives.My laptop is presently running on W10 operating system.I have no problems restoring a W10 system backup image from an internal or external drive to my laptop running on W10 using the Windows Recovery Function or with a Windows Reco

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W10 System Image Backup

When I use the W10 System Image Backup, it hangs at the step where it says it is "Preparing to create backup" and eventually times out leaving error codes 0x80780021 and 0x81000101. How do I fix this? My machine is Dell XP13, Core I7, 8th Gen, 500 SSD
and the hard drive is encrypted, but the backup says it will save an unencrypted version on my external backup hard drive.

 

W10 System Image Backup

Yes, that is the info in the error log file. I am not aware that Windows Update was running. I don't think it was. My backup disk did have some backup files created by W10 as part of its create system image feature, but I put the VSS and other Macrium
files in a different destination folder. When I exited the Windows backup feature, I would think that VSS was no longer sharing it, so Macrium should have been the only user of VSS. Maybe this is why the Windows Backup does not work for me anymore. Maybe
I should restore an earlier backup that I successfully created with Windows System Image Backup.

 

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.