Windows 10: Restore Windows 10 from an image file fails--active partition on a drive

My newest computer that I built was running fine with Windows 10 on a 1TB M.2 SSD with Windows 10. It was updated. I loaded several simulator programs onto a SATA hard disk called E:, amounting to 1.75 TB of the 5TB space. I made an image file of the system using "Windows 10 backup Windows 7" onto a USB 250GB hard disk that took 40 hours to make. The option of doing only C: drive was grayed out, and the backup was of both the C: and the E: drive. It occupied 136GB of space. I assumed the image file was a good backup.Then trouble started

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Move Win7 64 image from a partition NTFS to a new drive

EDIT: After reading your first post again, is there any reason that you would now need GPT? Are you just trying to move the windows install to a new disk or is there a new motherboard involved?

If you are already booting to an NTFS partition, then it makes me wonder if after copying to the new drive, the partition isn't getting marked as Active.

Following the same steps I posted above for startup repair, you can get to a command prompt and use diskpart to see if this is the case.

Code: In the command prompt: diskpart list disk select disk 0 (disk number may be different if you have other disks connected.) list partition select partition 0 (partition number number may vary, but you want to see the boot partition which is the same as your windows partition according to the screenshot on the OP) detail partition (This should have Active: Yes or No. If it says no, since we have the partition selected, you can just use the following command in diskpart) active[/quote]

 

Can I restore an SSD image to a normal hard drive disk

partition the files on the 500GB into two drives. so there will be two partitions, 150GB(OS and files) and 350GB(empty).

then clone the 150GB to the 240GB SSD

 

[HELP]Image recovery issues

Guys i am trying to fix my cousins Asus Eee netbook. It has a backup image file that is partitioned on the hard drive but when I go to use it the app will run through a few steps and stop. It is running Vista . Any suggestions?