Windows 10: Windows 10 Pro System Image Restore Failed Parameter is Incorrect (0x80070057)

Although this issue has been happening for a while I only encounter it this week while trying to restore a system image backup on my WD 500Gb system hard drive to a brand new Seagate HDD of the same size. I did this backup was because the WD drive started to give me a message "Please back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent and cause unpredictable failure. Press F1 to Run Setup." early this week.


I made a system image backup on the 19th on a external Seagate USB HDD and created a System Repair CD to restore the image onto the new Seagate HDD. Everything went fine until nearly 100% finish that I got the message " Image Restore Failed Parameter is Incorrect (0x80070057)". I thought maybe the system image backup I created was corrupt so I created another one yesterday after a Windows Update and also another System Repair disc. I tried restoring the new (latest) system image today and I got the same error message of Incorrect Parameter System Image Restore Failed.

I followed some of the suggestion like using Diskpart to clean the Seagate HDD but same error message when nearly 100% complete.

My Windows 10 Version is 10.0.18362 Build 18362. The bios of my LGA1151 motherboard is UEFI and I have CSM set to Enable which is Legacy 2 years ago and haven't changed it since. I have also not made any hardware changes recently apart from swapping hard drives.

I have done two system image restores on this PC some months back - from a old 500 Seagate HDD to a new Toshiba 500 GB HDD and from the Toshiba to my current Western Digital Black 500 and had no issues. On these occasions I boot from a system repair CD to do the system image restore. What could have changed ? Is there any other method or suggestion I can use ?

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System Image restore fails: "0x80070057 the parameter is incorrect"

Hello,

The Error code 0x80070057 the parameter is incorrect can be caused by an corrupted restore file. It would be great if you can tell us more about your concern. Kindly answer the following:

• Did you notice any system setting changes prior to the issue?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

Please tell us all the troubleshooting steps you've done so we can avoid repeats.

 

Windows system image restore failed. The parameter is incorrect. Error code 0x80070057

But you are sending me back into my original problem. If I boot from USB installation disk, I got the error at the end of restore

Windows system image restore failed. The parameter is incorrect. Error code 0x80070057

 

System Image restore fails: "0x80070057 the parameter is incorrect"

When trying to restore my Windows 10 system disk from a System Image, I received the error message "0x80070057 the parameter is incorrect". The restore was c95% complete at that point and the auto-repair offered by the system could not recover.

After that failure, I could not reboot from the system disk.

After some research, I made a second attempt to restore the System Image and selected the option to repartition the system disk. That attempt failed with the same error message, having almost completed.

I'm:

- running Windows 10 Home Edition with the latest updates applied

- booting from a System Repair CD

- attempting to restore from a 10 day old System Image stored on an internal HDD

- restoring to an internal SSD

I've found several references to the error on this forum and on others too. However, none of the offered solutions seem applicable or accessible in my particular predicament.

Is the situation retrievable by restoring the recent System Image? If so, how would I circumvent this error?