System Image Problem

Good, the drive is not the issue.

Why disconnect other drives?
Windows looks at all connected drives and decides where to place things. If you have only disk 0 connected, things can only be placed on disk 0. There are numerous threads where members help someone unscramble the disk schema because the install placed part on one drive and part on another drive. Just trying to go by the book and prevent more work for you.

I don't think you would have a problem, since the to be installed disk is disk 0 and it will be clean as described in post# 34 (Then ... diskpart ....)

but ... that's not the same as you will not have a problem

Have you had a chance to read over the Clean Install tutorial (link is also in post 34)

Any questions on the tut?

Aha! I'm glad you mentioned it

Sorry Nick ... I meant disconnect other drives.
You need the following connected

disk 0
Win10 install media (USB)

fdegrove,
can you guide Nick through the BIOS if he decides to go that route?

True about paying attention, but there are a lot of people that somehow manage to have the boot config on one drive and Windows on another.

By limiting the machine to only one drive to receive the install, then there's zero chance of that happening.

Maybe this will help

Disk 0	596 GB	Unallocated
Disk 1	7663 MB	ESD-USB

ESD-USB was disk 2, but removing Disk 1 - 298 GB - HP Pavillion, either physically or through the BIOS, moves the USB drive up in the device tree

Bill
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Ok Nick,

Let Windows Update bring the machine up-to-date

Install your favorite software using current install media. Discs are stale the moment they leave the mfgr. Vist the vendor site and download the current release.

Licenses are going to be difficult since the image refused to install. You can try a few things, such as adding the image VHD to a virtual machine, but I'm not sure that would work. You could pull the data out of the image and hunt for the license information - you have plenty of room.

But wait, don't you have the licences on the original discs or packaging? Sure would let me breath a sigh of relief.

Once you get all software, Windows and 3rd party, up-to-date (as much as possible sans licenses) - make a backup of disk 0 using Macrium Reflect Free.
Macrium Reflect Free

Macrium Reflect KnowledgeBase - KnowledgeBase - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase

Then try to restore the System image from inside Win10
Advanced Startup Options - Boot to in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

With any luck, it will work this time.
You can run Belarc advisor to audit the install, including keys
Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit, for software, hardware and security configuration information on your computer. Software license management, IT asset management, cyber security audits, and more.

Save the HTML report to an external drive

In either case, I think the Clean install will provide a better experience.

You could restore the Macrium backup and finish installing the software that you could not locate the license information.

These are choices you have to make. Whether you want to try to restore the image one last time or try to figure out how to get licenses for 3rd party software out of the image. If I get to vote - I'd try the image restore one last time since you have Macrium backup and can also try the other option.

Thought of another scenario using the HP Pavillion disk
It depends on what you have on that drive - if it's just the HP recovery media, then this might work out better

Once the Clean install is done - disconnect the drive (disk 0) either physically or thought BIOS
Connect the HP Pavillion drive

Connect the drive with your System image on it
Try restoring the image to the HP Pavillion drive
Select create partitions option in the restore

Something to think about - there are a few things that need to be answered before proceeding.
Is the HP recovery the only thing on that drive
Was Win10 originally on the machine
Were you able to select the Create partitions in previous attempts
Are there other System images that you could try to restore

Question to self: Should the HP pavillion disk be pre allocated with 450 MB SysRes and 580 GB Windows parts

I've never had this much difficulty with a system image restore, so I'm shot gunning a lot of options.
Thanks for everything you're doing - I'm sure it's a bit frustrating.

Bill
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Bill,

[EDITED by Moderator]I will continue this thread and ask pertinent questions, but I need to speak one on one.

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Nick

caddman6425 said:

Bill,

Could you email me directly? I will continue this thread and ask pertinent questions, but I need to speak one on one.

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Nick

Please remove your personal eMail from the post. You can PM me (click on Slartybart - select Private Message)