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If your current installation is one hard drive gpt style, you would need to change it to mbr for 32 bit to work.
(Assuming you firmware doesn't support 32 bit efi )
Would be the same with any imaging software.
I've had success removing usable drives from 64-bit installations then using GPARTED [or Linux Mint with GPARTED in it] to wipe all partitions from the drives [make them like they came out of the factory] then installing Windows letting it choose whether MBR or UEFI according to what the BIOS was set up for.
By the way, this computer has Legacy BIOS, not UEFI, and I read here that "Windows can only boot from GPT on UEFI-based computers running 64-bit versions of Windows 10" so I going to say that my x64 installation was MBR not GPT.
So I'm still not sure why Windows refused to let me restore my x86 image over my existing x64 installation. Either I'm doing something wrong, or Microsoft just chose to create its tool in a way that's unable to do this.
If that is the case, then 32 bit winre should have been able to restore 32 bit windows image.my x64 installation was MBR
Seems like it.Either I'm doing something wrong