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Restore Windows 10 System Image Backup to New Hard Drive

Updated: By Lucca Weber

Here in this article, we are going to show you two ways to restore Windows 10 system image backup to a new hard drive. If you have created a Windows 10 system image backup on your computer, you can following the tutorial below to restore your system image of Windows 10 to new hard disk drive. It will be much easier.

2 Ways to restore Windows 10 system image backup to new hard drives:
Way 1: Restore Windows 10 system image to new hard drive by system image troubleshoot
Way 2: Restore Windows 10 system image to new hard drive by Cocosenor backup tuner

How to restore Windows 10 system image to a new hard drive

Way 1: Restore Windows 10 system image to new hard drive via MS Troubleshoot

Windows 10 system is built with the Backup and Restore (Windows 7) feature, with which you can make a image of the Windows 10 system. After you created Windows 10 system image backup already, take the following steps to restore your Windows 10 system image to the new hard disk drive.  

Note: when you create Windows 10 system image, save the image file to a different hard disk drive. It's better to prepare a repair disc or installation media.

1. Shutdown your computer and replace the drive C with the new hard disk drive.

2. Boot your computer from a repair disc or Windows 10 bootable installation media.

3. Click 'Repair your computer'.

4. Select Troubleshoot→Windows 10→System Image.

5. Select the Windows 10 system image you want to restore and click Next.

select Windows 10 system image backup

6. Check the information and click Finish. Then wait for a few minutes.

hard drive to restore

Way 2: Restore Windows 10 system image to new hard drive by Cocosenor backup tuner

This method can also help you create a Windows 10 system image to another different computer regardless of any different based configurations. A professional backup-restore tool, Cocosenor Backup Tuner enables you to backup your Windows 10 system to a single backup file, and then restore the Windows 10 system image backup file to another new hard drive or another different computer. Following the steps:

1. Download Cocosenor Backup Tuner from the official website.

2. Install it and then launch it.

Create Windows 10 system image backup for restoration

3. Select the Backup tab.

4. Select a volume to backup. Find your Windows 10 system disk partition with Microsoft icon along. It will create a Windows 10 system image for later use.

backup windows system

5. Click Choose. Then select a path with enough space to save your Windows 10 system image backup file. The backup file of the system image can not only be transferred and restore to your new hard disk drive on the same computer but also to a different computer.

select a path

6. Click Start > Yes to back up Windows 10 system. When it finished, you can find the backup file of the system image on the path you ever selected. Then you can use the Cocosenor Backup Tuner to restore the system image to the new hard drive.

start to backup

Restore windows 10 system image backup to new hard drive

7. Step to Restore tab on Cocosenor Backup Tuner.

8. Select a disk partition with sufficient space from the drive list to be the restoration destination.

choose restoration destination

9. Then click the Choose button navigating to the path where you saved the Windows 10 system image backup file. Choose the backup file and click Open.

restore the system backup file

10. At last, click the Start > Yes button. It's going to restore the Windows 10 from the system image to your new hard drive. You can also transfer and restore the backup file of the Windows 10 system image to other different computer.

start to restore

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