How to Verify Windows Image Backup Restore in a Dual Boot PC?

Welcome to the forum. Are the images done with windows or a imaging software? There are lots of problem using windows image and it often doesnt work. Can you post a detailed screen shot from disk manager so we can see? I would think your best disconecting the other drive and then repair windows but we need to see the screen shot first

"Samuria
Welcome to the forum. Are the images done with windows or a imaging software? There are lots of problem using windows image and it often doesnt work. Can you post a detailed screen shot from disk manager so we can see? I would think your best disconecting the other drive and then repair windows but we need to see the screen shot first "

As I mentioned above the images were created using Windows OS. Windows images may have problems, but I want to use it to restore my Win 10 Pro as my last resort before doing a Reset.

I can not disconnect; both operating System are on one SSD, C: and D: partitions. see attached

You might be better off using wbadmin command to restore the image.

netmann said:

I... Now I like to restore the Win 10 Pro image file from the USB HDD. When I choose Image Restore from the blue menu, the machine restarts asking for my login and after that it correctly find the Win 10 Pro system image file with date, time and computer name. When I choose Select a System Image the following appears under Drives in Backup column: EFI System Partition C: , \\?\volume{..............}

...how can I make sure when I choose this image it restore it to the Windows 10 Pro folder and not to the Win 8.1 Pro folder?! I don't want to wipe out my Win 8.1 pro!

The built-in Microsoft system imaging is notoriously unreliable. Its most common failing being not being able to find an image that could be restored. Many of us use Macrium Reflect Free for just that reason, it's far more reliable.

Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect

Microsoft themselves recommend two years ago that you use something (anything) else....

Microsoft said:

System Image Backup (SIB) Solution
We recommend that users use full-disk backup solutions from other vendors.

Features removed or Deprecated in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update


I would strongly recommend that you start using Macrium from now on. Make an image of the whole machine now, then you can try restoring your Microsoft system image. Should it fail badly then you can restore the Macrium image and no harm is done. I suspect that the MS system imaging will correctly restore just the Windows 10 partitions as you hope it will, but I cannot be certain. In all the years I used to use MS system imaging I never had a machine running two OS as yours does.

Thank you Samuria, SIW2 and Bree for your input...

What I did was follow Bree recommendation as follows:

1) I installed Macrium free and made a Macrium system image of my Samsung SSD boot drive.
2) I booted into the WinRE using Windows System Repair Disk.
3) I then used the Windows Image Restore option from WinRE boot menu to restore "EFI System Partition C: , \\?\volume{..............}"mentioned in my first post above.
4) The restore process completed 100% but a second later I got an error "The system restore failed, Error Details: The parameter is incorrect, 0x80070057".
5) Using the command prompt, I checked the Dir of C: and D:. The C: (Win8.1Pro) was intact (thanks god) and D: (Win10Pro partition) was inaccessible.
6) I then tried to reboot....black screen with no message.
7) I booted with Macrium rescue USB thumb drive and restore the Macrium boot disk image.
8) I booted into Win8.1Pro fine and searched for the above error number.

The closest solution I could find on that error relating to the word "parameter" is that upon booting to WinRE environment, it changes the drive letters including CD-Rom drive and USB drive. At the end of the restore if those drive letters don't match what was recorded during its back completion, then that error is triggered. The solution is to eject or remove the rescue disk or thumb drive at the beginning of restore when it loads into the memory, or before the restore process ends which forces the restore wizard to match the drive letters of Restore and the original Backup. I will try this and update this post.

My second option is to use the wbadmin command as follows:

wbadmin start recovery -version:04/10/2019-14:30 -itemtype:volume -items:\\?\
volume{7b48e40b-7789-404b-bf65-439b492dab86}\ -backuptarget:j: -recoverytarget:d:

SIW2: Do you think the above command would work?

J: is drive on a external USB HDD with Windows system image
D: is Win10Pro partition to be restored
Volume is the volume ID of D:

Thanks in Advance
Alex

Hi Again,

I managed to fix the issue with my windows 10 Pro boot. I did not use WinRE, bootable USB or DVD, Refresh, Reset, Recovery Drive or clean install since I wanted to preserve my apps and settings.

Here is what I did: I booted to my crippled Win10 Pro OS and run the Microsoft Media Creation Tool and chose Upgrade This PC. This choice reinstalled Win 10 Pro with all my files, apps and settings intact. It didn't ask for my OS key and my AVG antivirus required another boot to get updated and activated....

I am a little surprised though no one on this forum suggested this approach! Oh well...live and learn...by yourself!