Please help with Windows 7 system image restore.

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paulcheung

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Hi all,

I do a Windows 7 clean install on the Toshiba laptop. I installed back a few programs that I use most. now I want to make a system image so when the laptop caught virus or other problems I can restore it from the system image.

I run into problem when I try to restore to image from the usb external drive to a old hard drive come from another laptop. Just to test to see if that will work. I got an error message say "The system image restore failed. No disk that can be used for recovering, the system disk cannot be found."

What did I do wrong? I simple follow the guide create the system image from the windows 7 backup and restore to the usb drive, and make a rescure disk from there and boot from it and try to restore the image.

Please help
Thank you.
 
The file is backup to an external usb hard drive. it use the windows 7 default format (I don't know what format it is) it is not .ISO file. I also make a rescure disk which will boot up for system restore or repair.
Have any one done this windows backup and restore using system image?
 
Yep I've used it before. If the System reserved partition is too small (less than 100MB) sometimes the backup and restore feature won't work. Make sure your System Reserved partition is 100MB or larger and try again. Or you could try backing up to another disk and try then?
 
The system reserve is 100MB set by windows 7 by default. so I don't know what goes wrong.
there is something I don't know if have anything to do with it. when I start to do the system image it say I need 29gb and when I check the folder the image on it only report 21gb used, does system image compress the files too?
 
paulcheung said:
The system reserve is 100MB set by windows 7 by default. so I don't know what goes wrong.
there is something I don't know if have anything to do with it. when I start to do the system image it say I need 29gb and when I check the folder the image on it only report 21gb used, does system image compress the files too?
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Is there only one drive in the system and when you installed Windows did you only have one drive plugged in?
 
It is a laptop, it only have one drive in there and parted in 3 partitions. The system reserve, OS and data partitions. Whe I do the backup. I check the system reserve and the os partition. so I don't know what goes wrong. It will be a lot easier if this can work. I can always return to fresh installed wondows and plus the mostly use programs.
Thanks
 
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