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

Hey there, can you please have a look at my last lost and i think may be you would be able to help me because i see in your previous post that you successfully resorted the SBI on your pc using fg2001's method.

Regards,

Ryan

Hi there, while launching the powershell and executing the command you have mentioned i get the red lines error as shown in the below pic, could you please tell me what wrong i am doing. And just a few question, the external hard drive we need to use does it need to be clean because i have about 400 gb of data on that hard drive and no where to save it and that hard drive comes as D: partation for me because E: is dvd drive on my laptop. And when it comes to 12th step:  do we need to enter the Format c: command first and press enter and then the rest or its all together and then press enter? 

Regards,

Ryan

...I found out that with Image Backups that I made after February 1st 2018, the restore works fine even when I need to reformat the disk.

The error 0x80042302 happens solid when trying to restore Image Backups that were made with Build 16299.192  or earlier build and it fails only when it needs to reformat the disk.

With Image Backups made with build 16299.214 I don't get any error restoring using either the recovery disk or the Installation media build 16299.15 or 16299.125.

It looks like build 16299.214 fixed the Image Backup, hopefully not just by luck. 

I hope this helps.

What are interns for if they don't do all my donkey work!

Our test lab has 27 machines and all the images are on tape. They decided to test them all and a handful of other 'problem' machines. 33 in total

We had two machines that have never been able to complete the system image part of the backup. They now work under 16299.214.

All the machines restore under 16299.15 except three. Two of those restore under 16299.125 although I'm not sure if it's the restore program or the system it's sitting on. One of those two is the non-UEFI machine that wouldn't restore.

The third was the one I was using as a test machine and still won't restore any image so I use a FFU on it. I have hacked it about A LOT, but if I can capture an FFU and restore it, then SIB should be able to.

We have decided not to use SIB and will be using DISM under WinPE to FFU image the disks offline. No change that MS makes will affect this process.

Tomorrow the interns will be restoring all the images from tape that SIB cannot restore, converting them to WIM files, restoring them and then FFU imaging them. By the end of tomorrow I can forget about SIB.

fg2001 is correct.  The problem is fixed (for the moment?) in 16299.214 (KB4058258). 

I verified this on 2 systems on which an older 1709 Image could not be restored (error 0x80042302) but a new Image created after KB4058258 would be restored on a clean disk as it should.

Thanks, fg2001

That is interesting. What was the size of the disk? I wonder if it was greater than 2 TB and a UEFI setup?

I also wonder if this problem is related to a system image problem from a few years ago. I remember that after I made a computer with a 6TB system drive and UEFI that it would work great but then if I tried to make a system image backup it would give the error, "There is not enough space to create the volume shadow copy on the storage location".

For the longest time it seemed that it was talking about the space on the designated drive that is getting the system image but it was actually referring to the Recovery System Partition of the original System Disk. I went and manually enlarged the Recovery System Partition with Acronis or something on one of my computers (but not this one) and then system image backup would work. But, I never did it on this computer that also has a 6 TB system drive. But, after a year or so it was able to make a system image on the computer that had not had the Recovery System Partition adjusted.

Perhaps there was a Windows Update that told the system image program to ignore the "available size of the Recovery System Partition on the system disk" however when it comes time to actually recreate the image there is a problem for a UEFI system disk that is larger than 2 TB and it does not see enough open space in the Recovery System Partition.

I never had to use System Image restore to see if enlarging the recovery system partition actually makes it work. (?)

Here is a link to the System Image problem that USED to occur and no longer does. This is for Windows 8 but I think that it was also for Windows 10

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows\_8-performance/cant-create-system-image-not-enough-disk-space/20113306-7c82-4709-8891-3a813e092eda?auth=1