Windows 10: Frustration with System Image restore

I have 5 drives in my PC, four of which are 1Tb and have lots of my video work on them. The 5th drive was a 500gb SSD drive he SSD was the Boot drive


This drive hung whilst working, and refused to allow the system to boot up again whenever the drive was connected. I tried the SSD in my sons PC and he had the same problem when connected it stopped his PC booting up


I had a Windows 10 recovery DVD which I had made previously, so successfully booted up and went on to find the System Image recovery section quite easily.


Then the problems started


1. The box format and repartition disks is greyed out - I dont want to accept that as I do not want to lose all my data on the other drives.


In the first instance I tried deselecting those drives, and used a further drive I had installed which had the System Image in.


This was found and I followed the instructions through BUT ended with the error message "windows did not find any disk it can use for recreating volumes present"


2. Undeterred I copied all the data from one of my drives, so I was now left with the drive with the Image on it, and a drive with the video files deleted. I again ensured the other drives were not selected


This time I got the error message -system cannot find file specified"


What I do not understand here is the setup procedure found this Image file itself !!


3. Again undeterred I copied another System Image file over onto the drive in question, replacing the previous one used. Again the image was found BUT again I got the same error - system cannot find file specified


4. As a last resort I copied the Image onto one of my other drives and removed my videos from that one also - BUT it made no difference still got the same errors


I'm now at a complete loss as to what to do next - my system image files are being found without problem, but I then get the error messages.


Any ideas anybody - thanks

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restore system image from command prompt, drive d: not seen by system restore

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



To be able to help you with the appropriate troubleshooting steps, please reply with the following details:

• Are you trying to restore the system image or create a system image?
  
• Are you able to see the external drive in File Explorer?
  
• Could you please briefly explain the procedure that you are following to initiate a system image restore?
  

In the meantime, I suggest you to refer the articles on
How to: Create a system image in Windows 10 and

How to restore a Windows 10 system image to an existing or larger storage device created by Andre Da Costa.



Please reply with the detailed information, to help you in a better way.



Regards,

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

System Image Problem


Bill,

Could you elaborate on the Nick's Data? I've already done a Sys Img to G: drive.
What is a Belarc Advisor audit?


Rebooting now to see if drives stay the same.


--
Nick

 

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.