Windows 10: the selected system image cannot be restored in this recovery environment

Hi again,

I have finally managed to sort my Windows 10 installation out after having error code 0xc000021a however now I'm having trouble trying to restore my system image from an external hard drive it says (the selected system image cannot be restored in this recovery environment) , can anyone help please

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Windows Can Not Locate System Restore Image

Hi Kyle,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



How are you trying to recover it from the image?



You must restore the image from Windows recovery environment. In some cases, your computer may not recognize the system image from a flash drive. Here are the steps to restore the image from the Windows recovery environment.

• Select Start and click on Power button.
  
• Select Restart while holding the
  Shift key to boot the computer into advanced recovery environment.
  
• Select Troubleshoot from the available options.
  
• Click on Advanced options.
  
• Select System Image.
  
• Check the radio button for Select a system image.
  
• Select the image location and click
  Next. If the system image is on network location then click
  Advanced to add that location, then click Next.
  
• Select the system image based on date and time, if you have multiple images available. Click
  Next.
  
• In the next screen you may specify additional options to format or delete partitions if needed. Click
  Next.
  
• Click Finish in the summary screen.
  
• Click Yes to confirm that you want to proceed with the restore.
  
  
  

Hope it helps.



Peer Samie

Microsoft Community-Moderator

 

How to restore system image backup


Ryan,

Whilst I can find the tutorial for making a system image [Create a System Image], I cannot find one about restoring it at the moment so here are my own notes on the procedure - [I never see the message windows need to format the drive... so I am not sure where you are when you see that]

[Added later - There is an illustrated guide to restoring a system image in Restore Image on Computer - EightForums. The procedure seems to be the same and the illustrations should be helpful.]

1 Go to

• Settings,
• Update & security,
• Recovery,
• Under the Advanced startup heading, click on the button for Restart now.

2 This will take you into the onboard Windows recovery environment [WRE], a menu-driven environment -

• Troubleshoot,
• Advanced options,
• System image recover.

3 You will be rebooted into the System image recovery procedure -

• Log into an Admin account,
• Connect the drive containing the image,
• Accept the latest image identified by the system or Select a image,
• The rest is entirely menu driven.
• [Whilst there are some options that can be chosen, the defaults are normally off for all these and should be accepted.]

There are variations of this procedure such as starting the restoration from an installation disk, system repair disk or System recovery drive [see page 2 of this thread].

Denis

 

Missing Recovery Environment

Hi Alan,

Here is a link containing several useful suggestions to help you recover Windows 10. Since the error message that you got tells you to insert your Windows installation or recovery media. We suggest the perform the steps listed under
Use a recovery drive to restore or reset your PC or you can also follow the steps under
Use installation media to restore or reset your PC. Please see the link below for more details:

Recovery options in Windows 10.

Regards.