Windows 10: Win 7 image restore breaks ability to see Win 10 image backups

I doubt MS will recommend a particular 3rd party product.

MS system image works well. The problems are almost always between the chair and the keyboard.

 

Agreed. It works well if you stay within its design limits. Problem is, those limits aren't documented anywhere. I had to learn them the hard way. Apparently innocuous changes can break it. *Sad

Still, it works reliably for me (now). I've lost count of the number of successful restores I've done.

 

I never got it to work successfully on any of my 32bit uefi tablets (had 3 so far) whereas Macrium worked everytime.

Also had restore failures on my old (now in bit heaven) Sony.

In the end, I found it not to be reliable.

Re. recommendation of tool, Macrium was way ahead in the poll @Kari did a year or so ago, so I cannot think of a better endorsement than the informed opinion of regulars here.

I admit I am biased but that is simply based on fact it has never let me down on any device and that is the only tool I can say that about. I did find it was the only tool that could handle 32bit uefi installs. Ok I accept that was about three years ago and have not reverified but in the end, I just have utmost confidence.

I always say it is a good plan is to image backup with two different tools, then immediately ignore my own advice by only ever using Macrium - LOL!

I went for the paid version mostly to use Rapid Delta Restore which is brilliant. I screwed up my OS other day doing stupid stuff and because RDR only restores stuff that has changed (bit like uup updates), I git back to state of previous days backup in less than five minutes!

Actually, I do not see how MS could endorse a specific product as others would cry foul.

However, I could see MS entering a partnership ?

 

The Windows image UI is only intended to perform basic tasks - i.e. for the average user. I have used the command prompt to restore volumes from system images to different drives.