Windows 10: My laptop keeps crashing after moving from w11 to w10 with a boot disk.

Hello, so I had W11 for a while and decided to go back to 10 pro. After that my laptopAsus TUF Gaming started crashing, after reinstaling again the windows 10, the problems remained the same, it worked for a while but than those crashing or blue screens atrted again. I tried to factory reset it and after that my drive was 70+ full even after a fresh factory reset, I did that again and that problem was solved, now I'm dealing with the constantly crashing issue. I can't even type my password and the laptop freezes. Can I try anything else before going into a repair shop?

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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 Recovery thumb-drive.

I have no problems restoring a W11 system backup image from an internal or external drive to my laptop running on W11 using the Windows Recovery Function or with a Windows Recovery thumb-drive.

I also have no problems restoring a W10 system backup image from an internal or external drive to the laptop running on W11 using the Windows Recovery Function or with a Windows Recovery thumb-drive.

But I cannot restore a W11 system backup image from an internal or external drive to the laptop running on W10 using the Windows Recovery Function or with a Windows Recovery thumb-drive.

I wish to upgrade the laptop operating system from W10 to W11 using the W11 updated system backup image from the internal and external drives but I have problems in doing so. It keeps telling me - To restore this computer, windows needs to format the drive that the windows recovery environment is currently running on. To continue the restore, shut down this computer and boot it from a Windows Installation Disk or a System Repair disk and try the restore again.

As my laptop does not have a CD/DVD-Rom Drive to use a Windows System Repair Disk, I used a W10 & W11 Recovery thumb-drive but the same problem still occurs - To restore this computer, windows……..

Internet research found: While you can use both tools to access the Windows advanced boot options for troubleshooting startup, we recommend using a USB-based recovery drive when possible, since it contains all the same tools as the system repair disc.
How to Create and Use a Recovery Drive or System Repair Disc in Windows 8 or 10

I also have no problems restoring a W11 system from the W11 factory restore partition on the laptop running W10 using the Windows Recovery Function or with a Windows Recovery thumb-drive.

But I also cannot restore the W11 updated system backup image from the internal and external drives to the laptop after the factory W11 restore. It keeps telling me - To restore this computer, windows needs to format the drive that the windows recovery environment is currently running on. To continue the restore, shut down this computer and boot it from a Windows Installation Disk or a System Repair disk and try the restore again.

One other thing that I did also find very strange is that when running the laptop on W11, I created a backup image in the Windows Image Backup Folder on the E: drive partition.
When running the laptop on W10, I also created a backup image in the Windows Image Backup Folder on the E: drive partition.

BUT post W11 system restore from the W11 factory restore partition, the Windows Image Backup Folder appears on the D: drive?

All other folders on the D: and E: drive partitions remain in their original locations, ONLY the Windows Image Backup Folder changes drive partition locations when changing from running W10 to W11 system?
The laptop Disk 1 contains both C: and D: drive partitions and Disk 2 is the E: drive partition.

I could not quite believe what I was seeing so I do have screenshots of the above…..

Anyway, all I want to achieve is to restore my laptop running W10 with my W11 updated system backup image….


I hope someone out there has a few answers for me.

Thanks in advance
Gary

 

Dual-boot PC - w11 or w10 - Restore PC to a Restore Point in w11 or w10

Dual-boot PC - w11 or w10 - Restore PC to a Restore Point in w11 or w10

HOW TO CHOOSE e.g. Windows 10 and PROCEED TO SYSTEM RESTORATION without affecting the other Windows 11????

 

Help! New system keeps crashing

It's runing through them now. It's a step forward, as the problem was the system crashing as soon as I pressed the key to boot from the disk, it crashed before I even got to install it. When it's done, I'll burn another copy, see if that works.