Windows 10: How can I create a complete disk image backup in Win 10 that I can access in Win 11?

I bought a new laptop running Win 11 to replace my old laptop running Win 10. I would like to create a complete backup of everything on the old Win 10 system on a USB drive. Then I want to be able to "mount" the USB drive on Win 11 and access the files and folders using Windows Explorer as well as tools like Beyond Compare and File Locator Pro to help me make sure that I have moved everything over. This must include not only data files, but VBA macros for Word and Excel and anything else.Is there a backup tool in Win 10 that will do this?ThanksPS: I selected "Windows update, recovery, and back

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Win 10 Home Ver 1709 - Disk Image Backup

When I try to create a disk image backup, the image file is empty and I get a message that the destination was block by "Bit Locker". My Win 10 is a down loaded version

 

Win 10 repair disk unable to find Win 10 system image backup

As a workaround to this issue, I have verified that by doing a system image backup from Win 7 and adding the Win 10 partition to the list of partitions (the Win 10 partition appears to be a "data" partition from Win 7 perspective) to be backed up by the
Win 7 system image backup, I can then restore both Win 7 and Win 10 partitions. The main drawback is I have to restore the Win 7 partition in order to restore the Win 10 partition. I can choose to only restore the Win 7 partition, but not to only restore the
Win 10 partition.

As a side note, if I restore a Win 7 image backup made before I installed Win 10, then there's no option to restore "Windows 10" from either Win 10 or Win 7 repair. I'm wondering if or how a Win 10 repair would function if restoring to a replaced hard drive.
If all of the partitions on a hard drive are included during a system image backup, then system image restore is supposed to be able to partition and format a hard drive as part of the repair restore. I have the impression that Win 7 repair restore can do
this, but I'm not sure if Win 10 repair restore can do this.

 

Win 10 repair disk unable to find Win 10 system image backup

Although I thought that the Win 7 repair / restore was the issue, at another forum it was mentioned that doing a Win 7 backup to the same drive / partition as a prior Win 10 backup would cause the Win 10 images to no longer be visible to the Win 7 or Win
10 repair systems. This seems to be the actual cause of the problem.

My system has 4 hard drives, 5 partitions each. Windows 7 is installed on the 3rd drive, 2nd partition. Window 10 is installed on the 4th drive, 2nd partition. The Win 7 and Win 10 backups were made to the 2nd drive, 5th partition, and also to a "spare"
partition: 1st drive, 3rd partition (the 1st drive is the same drive as the boot partition, so the 2nd drive is the main backup). So I have two sets of Win 7 and Win 10 backups. I use different computer names for Win 7 and Win 10, such as NAME-7 and NAME-10
to avoid confusion with the image backups.

The suggested workaround from the other forum is to have two instances of WindowsImageBackup, one named WindowsImageBackup.W7 the other named WindowsImageBackup.W10, and then renaming one of them to WindowsImageBackup before doing a backup or restore. Using
the two separate instances of WindowsImageBackup appears to be working. This would seem to imply that somehow information is being stored in the WindowsImageBackup folder itself, but I don't know how. I do not see any files in the WindowsImageBackup, only
directories with the computer names.