Windows 10: Restore an existing windows 10 system image not to the old failing HDD but to a new SSD

Hi, it's really frustrating that Microsoft makes things so unideal and tough for us users.



The new SSD is connected to the computer through a USB 3.0 to SATA cable, so right now it's external. My computer still runs using the old failing HDD, so I need to get this done asap.


I have a windows system image windows 7 type backup, and the reason I need to use it is cause I can't clone the old disk using Minitoolsince the old HDD has bad sectors, and the disk cloning fails in Minitool.



So, the plan B is to take the existing system image and send it to the new SSD disk. Ideally, I should be able to take that image and write to the new SSD drive which is connected using a USB 3.0 to SATA cable. Again, cloning the disks using this same connection doesn't work because the current HDD has bad sectors and I get a festival of errors, when it tries to clone the disk.



Now, what are my options? Notice I don't need help with getting access to the recovery utilities or BIOS, I know how to do that, so you please skip that part:



1 Can I force Windows to give me the option of the new SSD upon recovery, although it's external? It appears to only let me restore the image to the old failing HDD. Perhaps if I disable/dismount the disk 0 the old failing HDD with Diskpart? Would it work if I issue the offline command in Diskpart to disable the old HDD using the Cmd/Dos utility?

2 Is there any software that would allow me to place the windows 10 system image onto the SSD connected to the computer with the USB to SATA cable, while the computer is still up and running?

3 Perhaps some other better solution?

:)

 

failing to upgrade from hdd to ssd

If you are trying to move your installation over to the SSD, you could borrow an external drive, backup your current installation, shutdown, uninstall the HDD, install the SSD then restore the image:

• How
  to: Create a system image in Windows 10
• How
  to restore a Windows 10 system image to an existing or larger storage device

 

How to restore a Windows 10 system image to an existing or larger storage device

Just tried restoring a WIN 10 backup (made from 500gb SSD to 1TB SSD) get the message " the system image restore failed the parameter is incorrect 0x80070057"

• Apparently it is not possible to restore to a different SSD using WIN 10 backup and restore

 

System Image on new SSD

Recently my HDD failed in my laptop, I had previously created a system image on an external hard drive and a repair disk on a DVD. I created the system image in a subfolder of the external drive as it contains multiple system images for different computers.
I have a new SSD that I am installing in place of my failed HDD, I have tried booting with the repair disk and recovering my system image to the new SSD without success, and just tried using AOMEI partition assistant but from what I can see, this software
only installs current OS onto new SSD. I am using a second laptop and want to transfer/recover the system image from my external drive to the new SSD, any ideas on using AOMEI, other software, or figuring out how to properly do this using Windows recovery?