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I've used the Window 10 system image backup and restore on several occasions since its official July release. I use an external USB hard drive for the image copy. I have no issue restoring an image provided the installation of Windows 10 with the issues is still there. If I reformat and do a clean install of Windows 7 and then upgrade to Windows 10, it will not recognize the system image backup on my external drive. When it searches for images, it finds none. I've taken a new system image of the new Windows 10 installation and it will find that one, but still will not find the one I want to restore. I've even tried renaming files replacing certain image files from one image copy to the other but that hasn't worked for me either. Bottom line is that I cannot find a way to restore a system image unless the corrupted version of that installation still exists on my system. And I have also tried booting with a system repair CD I've created. This happened a couple of weeks ago, so I have since found workarounds to get everything back to its original state.