I cannot restore any system image which was created in Windows 10 v1709 using Backup and Restore.

I downloaded a free version of Easeus TODO BACKUP HOME software earlier. I did a Partition/Disk on my C: drive. I will find out in the future if it is as reliable as Windows 10 SIB.

I did google (After reading comments about SIB in this Forum) Best Backup software. The top two were Acronis and Easeus with Macrium coming in a little bit worse than the others. I believe it was at PC Magazine Website. But it showed the Paid version of Easeus and not the Free version. Macrium was the first free software listed.

Easeus Free version basically offers the same features plus more than MS SIB. Except it can't restore to a different computer. The paid version can.

I already have and been using Acronis for several years but I like to have two Backups in case one doesn't do a good job at restoring the image.

Maybe I am naive about how large Corporations like MS works, But if the development team or software engineers are working on a Windows Update that is going to make a feature obsolete or removed, How hard would it be to let MS Public Relations Dept know that they are working on this for the next Windows Update or Upgrade and let the Public know through WIndows OS. 

**"**Microsoft won't 'spend' an extra development/deployment/testing cycle to do this" This is already being done by the development department or Software Engineers before releasing it to the Public. MS has to test any new updates or upgrades before being made public, so they are not spending anything that already isn't budgeted.

Unless the "Right Hand" doesn't know what the "Left Hand" is doing in MS Corp.

Then Microsoft should notify all Windows users that certain features will be obsolete either by a message in Action Center or when the user tries to use the obsolete feature, Windows will warn them it will become obsolete or is obsolete. Then Microsoft should give instructions on a workaround to the obsolete feature.

Or have the newly obsolete feature removed entirely from the Windows OS during a Windows Update. That way the user will know something is wrong with the feature.

This way the User won't be shocked when the feature they have been using since Windows 7 or earlier doesn't work anymore at the wrong possible time.

  

Microsoft won't 'spend' an extra development/deployment/testing cycle to do this. As I type this reply, there will be users making a SIB in good faith - not knowing the easy way to recover from a disk failure is now gone.

I didn't expect SIB to be in W10 as ImageX has been replaced with DISM. As soon as W10 was released with SIB included, I believe Microsoft had an obligation to support it.

...Macrium Reflect is rock-solid reliable and virtually effortless once you've learned how to use it...

Yes, it is

Then Microsoft should notify all Windows users that certain features will be obsolete either by a message in Action Center or when the user tries to use the obsolete feature, Windows will warn them it will become obsolete or is obsolete. Then Microsoft should give instructions on a workaround to the obsolete feature.

Or have the newly obsolete feature removed entirely from the Windows OS during a Windows Update. That way the user will know something is wrong with the feature.

This way the User won't be shocked when the feature they have been using since Windows 7 or earlier doesn't work anymore at the wrong possible time.

  

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