Windows 10: Restoring Windows 10 system image to a different drive partition

Discus and support Restoring Windows 10 system image to a different drive partition in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Hi: I built a new desktop to get Windows 10 as my old hardware with Windows 7 was not upgradable. I have been able to install Windows 10Pro except that... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by jgretired, Mar 16, 2016.

  1. JGRETIRED
    jgretired Win User

    Restoring Windows 10 system image to a different drive partition


    Hi: I built a new desktop to get Windows 10 as my old hardware with Windows 7 was not upgradable. I have been able to install Windows 10Pro except that I am getting frequent disk errors ( system trying to clean up at boot time). I have another
    disk and a free partition. I made a complete system image backup on an external drive and system repair disk. I would like
    to restore the backup image to the new partition and erase the old image on the disk that is giving me trouble. Any suggestions as to how I go about. Thanks

    :)
     
    jgretired, Mar 16, 2016
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  2. RCGLIDER
    rcglider Win User

    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.
     
    rcglider, Mar 16, 2016
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  3. LORD STANLEY(2)
    Lord Stanley(2) Win User
    Windows 10: fails backup to system image

    An image backup can be made on an internal drive partition of a different HDD as well as an external drive. As you said the image can be used by the Windows 10 repair disc to restore your operating system on a new hard drive if the original one corrupts
    or fails. I run my images every two weeks.
     
    Lord Stanley(2), Mar 16, 2016
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  4. WHS
    whs Win User

    Restoring Windows 10 system image to a different drive partition

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    whs, Mar 16, 2016
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