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I'm not expert enough in this to suggest what may have happened here, but I do know that moving the image file or having on different partitions should not cause a problem.
There seems to be quite a lot of info on this if you search. This from AOMEI is interesting:
https://www.aomeitech.com/articles/s...bios-4125.html
Many reading this will probably suggest that in future you switch to a 3rd party backup program rather than Windows own. I would second that thought and AOMEI (my favourite) and Macrium would be the other well liked option.
Back to your problem and it really does sound like something fundamental has changed or been changed with your system.