I copied the files to the primary disk manually because of permissions and other things...took me a while. In the target disk I moved all of it's contents (including the hidden folders) into another...

If I do this, can I restore the image back to the target drive after I'm done?

In Method One part 2 there's a line that says: "Be sure that the drive into which you are relocating the Users folder is empty and does not contain any Windows system folders, especially Users...