Windows 10: Windows 10 crashes when restoring system image

Hey,


I had a 200GB SSD with Windows 10 and a 2TB HDD Seagate ST2000DM001 in my PC. The 2TB HDD slowly died over the last few weeks, so I decided to put in a new 2TB Seagate ST2000DM008. I have a backup that I obtained by creating a system image of both drives before the HDD had problems.


Now I tried to restore that image onto the existing SSD and the new HDD. I booted from a USB stick and followed the usual process to restore a system image. It restores the image for the SSD without any problems, but it always crashes when trying to restore the HDD. In most cases there is no error screen and it crashes after approximately a minute or two. Sometimes it goes on for 15 minutes or longer and then crashes which sometimes results in blue screens see picture. I tried it with and without formatting the HDD beforehand, with and without ticking the box to format it in the process itself and results do vary, but nothing actually works.


The picture shows one of the errors, there was another as well. I'm not sure if that should be the focus point though, because most crashes just occur randomly without a BSOD. I am rather certain that nothing is wrong with the backup itself, because it didn't cause any problems at the time and Windows restores the SSD without problems. Also I stored the external drive with the backup safely.


I've been trying to fix this for hours and I really need to get it done, so any help is much appreciated! I am very happy to add additional information if that helps.




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Restoring Windows 10 Image using Macrium Reflect


In addition to the above. Here's my suggestion in step by step.
I assume you have Macrium Installed in your current HD and already made a backup copy.

1. Connect your new HD via USB port and boot up.
2. Run Macrium, click on Restore tab then select the Backup Image that you made to restore
3. click on "select a different target disk" then select your new HD as destination
   
   
   
4. Proceed to restore then Shutdown and disconnect the old HD and replace with the new HD
5. Boot up with your new HD.

 

restore system image from command prompt, drive d: not seen by system restore

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



To be able to help you with the appropriate troubleshooting steps, please reply with the following details:

• Are you trying to restore the system image or create a system image?
  
• Are you able to see the external drive in File Explorer?
  
• Could you please briefly explain the procedure that you are following to initiate a system image restore?
  

In the meantime, I suggest you to refer the articles on
How to: Create a system image in Windows 10 and

How to restore a Windows 10 system image to an existing or larger storage device created by Andre Da Costa.



Please reply with the detailed information, to help you in a better way.



Regards,

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

How to delete inactive System Image Restore Points in System Restore

Windows 10 64-bit.
When I click "show more restore points" in System Restore I see a bunch of old "system image restore points" that were deleted in past and do not correspond to any currently active restore points. Clicking any of these old restore points, I simply get an error message saying they could not be found, and to select another restore point instead.I would like to delete these restore points listings but have been unable to do so.
So far, I have tried steps mentioned below without any luck :

Disk Cleanup through (C Properties
Disable System Protection (OFF and ON) in System Protection for OS (C
Disk Space Usage to minimum (slider button all the way to the left then 'Delete all restore points for this drive'),
Delete all shown Restore points in CCleaner (the problem ones do not show here),
Reset Windows Backup to Default in Windows 10 with 'Reset_Windows_Backup.bat' utility.

Any suggestions highly welcome.