Windows 10: Can't Restore from any of my System Images

I have seen many similar problems on the forum but none are exactly the same so I hope I am best posting afresh.

I have just done a fresh install of Win 10 Pro 64bit and I made three system images and a restore disk as I progressed though my installation.

I now find I want to restore back to a previous state as I have been having some issues with one application. However, I cannot get Backup&Restore to recognise any of my system images and the same is true if I boot from my restore CD.

I have the 3 images of my NAS and I copied one to my old internal SSD which is still installed and visible in Win10. The NAS is on my network and B&R won't recognise any of the images and when booting from the restore disk I get a network error when it tries to access the NAS. neither will see the image on the old but still installed SSD either.

I was able to do a restore to an earlier point, but I will now have to reinstall everything again if I cannot understand why the system images are not recognised, this used to work perfectly in Win7.

I really need to get this working for my future backups and my peace of mind.

Thanks Dave.

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I've still not managed to resolve this problem. It would seem that the system can't find an image to restore the corrupt file from...

Any further assistance please.

Dave.

 

First I install windows 10, then i haven't got any operative system

Thank you but i can't do any option. I don't see any of the screens that appear on the wiki article. I just see a menu with 2 options. 'Turn off the computer' or 'Solve problems'. If i choose 'Solve problems' i see: 'Reset this computer', 'restore this
pc from one unity' and 'advanced options'.

I click on:

• 'Reset this computer': 2 new options
  • Keep my files: If i choose this i see ' The unit where winsdows has been installed is blocked, unblock it and tryagain'.
  • Remove all: If i choose this i see 'Can't get this pc back. Lack a partition of unit necessary'.
• 'Restore this pc from one unit': Two new options again, 'Remove only my files' and 'Clean the entire unit'. I can do both and then i see a screen with a circle and a percentage. At the end of the both process the computer says 'the process have failed'.
• 'Advvanced options': Five options.
  • Restore the system: I see a warning window 'To restore the system spicifie the winsdows intallation that you want to restore. Restart the pc, choose and operative system (i can't do that) and select restore the system.
  • Restore the system image: I clck and i see a warning window 'Windows can't found a system image in this computer. Conect the hard disk of the security copy or insert the DVD of the end of a back up set and click retry. Also you can close this dialog box
    and see more options'. I can't do what it says so i close it. New dialog box 'Choose a security copy of the system image. This pc will be restored with the system image. All content on the computer will be replace from the system image. Information and
    solutions to BMR problems: Recover the Operating System or Full Server'. And then i can chose 'Select a system image' And then i have to choose the security copy location and even if i conect my pendrive with the copy to the pc computer doesn't found the
    security copy and just let me lokk for system image online or install a driver, and here i don't know what to do.
  • Startup repair: Computer try to solve problems but finally it says it can't.
  • Symbol of the system: Here i see a MS2 screen which says: X:\windows\system32>_
  • Revert to previous compilation: I can do but again surje a problem and suggest me try to restore the actual compilation.

That's all i can do, it's difficult to me explain this but really i'm going crazy. Any ideas?

 

Make sure the folder named "WindowsImageBackup" is still in the root of the USB drive where it was originally created. Like g:\WindowsImageBackup. Same with the computer image, make sure it's still the system name of the PC, the way it was originally created. If you rename a folder the image (and other images on the same drive) will not be found. So the full path will be like g:\WindowsImageBackup\your-pc


Make sure you haven't added any other folders in the "WindowsImageBackup" folder unless they are disk images of other computers. Any other folder (like an empty folder) that is alphabetically ahead of a Windows Image Folder will prevent all alphabetically trailing System Images from being found.


If you have multiple system images on one USB drive and rename the mediaID file on any of the images, then all images alphabetically trailing the one with the renamed mediaID file will not be found.


It could also just be that your USB is failing. If this is the case, you'll want to use a disk imager like Acronis True Image, Drive Cloner, or Macrium Reflect to backup the USB. You might also want to replace System Images with the aforementioned programs as it's much more durable.

 

Hi and thanks for the reply.

One problem is, I did not used a USB drive !

The 3 images were originally sent directly to my NAS on my network paths \\F1-NAS\SHARE\THERMALTAKE-i5-W10-1, 2 and 3.

When I could not get B&R or Restore to access my NAS, I copied the first one back to my internal SDD which is SATA, so no USBs involved !

Inside each folder is the WindowsImageBackup folder untouched.

However at some point I did rename my PC from the default name Windows gave it to Thermaltake-i5X, so do I need to look in each WIB folder to make sure the names are correct ? or maybe I need to change the computer name back to what it was originally, if I can find that ?

Thanks I will try that tonight *Smile

 

Interesting! If you can, try it with a USB. System Images are very fickle.

 

Hi there
Not a solution for your current problem but I'd get a copy of FREE MACRIUM for next time. You can make a bootable USB stick too -- take images using that -- IMO they are FAST and always work on restore. Interface is simple, clean and easy to use -- even a Dummy like me can understand and use it. !!

It will also save to NAS etc -- but my test system wasn't connected to the network so I just used a USB HDD. Windows was 40GB which saved as a 20GB image on the backup device with medium (default) compression selected and all other options at default as well.

I imaged a test system yesterday to an external portable USB 3 HDD-- just over 6 Mins -- hardly a mega long time.





Cheers
jimbo

 

Hi and many thanks for the suggestion.
My immediate problem was solved by HanginJang's suggestion of moving the WindowsImageBackup folder into the root directory of a USB HDD.
However I will try Macrium as I would prefer to use my NAS both ways.

 

I'm having the same problem, but it's getting a new computer, with a different system name, to see the WindowsImageBackup files. Should I change the name of this computer to the one in the folder? Or should I change the name on the folder to match the name of this machine?

Thanks!

 

I would not touch the file names in the backup folder.
Change the computer name, that should be quite harmless, you can always rename it once the restore is complete.
Note though that only try to restore data files not system files, the new computer won't like the old ones