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HELP!! Win10 System Disk Image Restoration Fail (0x80070057)
Hi, everyone!
It's been forever since I've been here, so please forgive my evidently-first-post call-for-help.
I was in the process of migrating my system from a 500GB SSD to a 1TB SSD, and through that simply using the Windows in-built Disk Image Backup utility that was brought-over by Microsoft from Windows 7 (but deprecated) would be an easy way of migrating the disk volume to the new drive, and using Paragon's Partition Manager would be able to adjust the volume size; I've used this program previously to migrate from a 250GB to a 500GB drive in Windows 7 in a similar scenario with no problem...which, sadly, I trusted would work this time.
I have downloaded at least a dozen copies & versions of "recovery" programs, and none of them have been able to see or gain access to the .VHDX files created on my external USB backup drive. You name it: Acronis, Macurium, EasUS, AOMEI, etc. If a guide on restoring from these backups is on the net, chances are I've read it (even the 3 that are in German - thanks, Chrome translate!). I've put the system to it's exact hardware config when the backups were made (Yes, I'm aware that Disk Imaging *is* hardware-aware)
15 years of work, *safely* locked away. Projects & potential work *frozen*. What angers me the most is that I took precautions by making two Disk Images on different drives within 30min of each other. What's even worse is that I could have installed one of these programs and used THEIR archiving programs and not counted on Microsoft's capabilities.
So, here's what I'm looking for; I'm looking for an absolute worked-for-me-repeatedly solution. I'm looking for a software package that will ingest the vhdx files and output to a new hard drive, or a process that will do the same. I don't relish the idea of needing to completely re-installing Windows 10 + all of the years of software that I've installed on this system since the Windows XP x64 & Vista days up to the last 6 months of a project I've been working on. I'm aware that I can re-install Windows and mount the vhdx file and then copy the files in the container over to a new drive, but that doesn't make things bootable, etc.
This is a "Hail Mary" folks. I'm literally at the end of my rope.
Thanks in advance!
--ScottK