Hey, rwb1012. I'm unable to execute the first command. Could you please help me?
I cannot restore any system image which was created in Windows 10 v1709 using Backup and Restore.
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I cannot restore any system image which was created in Windows 10 v1709 using Backup and Restore. I receive the following error:
“The system image restore failed.
Error details: A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error. Check the Application event log for more information.
(0x80042302)”
This is a fresh Windows 10 v1709 installation. The repair disk was created using Backup and Restore. The image resides on an external USB hard drive which contains other images. I can restore any Windows 10 v1703 image using the repair disk. I cannot restore any Windows 10 v1709 image using the repair disk.
As a first test, I installed Windows 10 v1709 on a new HP EliteBook 840 G4 laptop (before installation I wiped its hard drive). I also used a different external USB hard drive to back up the image successfully. I checked Event Viewer and found no errors or warnings relating to Windows Backup. After a successful backup, I wiped that laptop using the “clean” command and tried to restore the same image I created earlier. It failed with the VSS error referenced above.
As a second test, I installed Windows 10 v1703 on the same HP EliteBook 840 G4 laptop (before installation I wiped its hard drive). I used the same external USB hard drive to back up the image successfully. I checked Event Viewer and found no errors or warnings relating to Windows Backup. After a successful backup, I wiped that laptop using the “clean” command and tried to restore the same image I created earlier. The restore was successful.
Unsuccessfully, I tried to restore an image using repair disks I created in Windows 10 v1703, v1607 and v1511.
I am aware System Image Backup (SIB) Solution is deprecated (not removed) in v1709. I searched online for other users with the same issue and came across the following post on TechNet forum.
The culprit appears to be v1709. Something changed to prevent a successful restore.
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Anonymous
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2018-02-16T05:05:47+00:00 I'd be grateful if you could post the step-by-step procedure. I backed up my system using the System Image Builder, 5 days ago before giving my laptop for repairs. When I got it back, I did a fresh installation of Windows, partitioned the drives and tried to restore the backup only to face this error. Also, now it's not even showing the other partitions!(image below) Please help
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Anonymous
2018-02-16T04:42:56+00:00 Hey mate is there a way to restore also recovery partation using your method. Because whenever i try reset my window i get error that window cannot be reset. I think it may be because we only restored the c partation of sib using that method and not the recovery and efi partation from the previous SIB.
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Anonymous
2018-02-16T04:32:08+00:00 I did it with Windows Image Backup. And had I known MS had deprecated the tool and broken it, I would've used a third party software and noted the build number of my windows. Sadly, I didn't do either and now I'm just hoping for a third party software which can restore Windows Image from the external drive. Is there any such software ?
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Anonymous
2018-02-16T02:01:22+00:00 Ya it went after a long time... leaving it to make the .wim file over night was the best thing for me. So now that I got my image working and computer restored time to make a new backup. :)