Recent content by phildaily

For those that responded to my situation, thank you, I really appreciate your help. I consider the issue closed for me. I'm so sorry for the unsuspecting soul that believes Microsoft works for their benefit.

OK I have given up. What is a good backup software that doesn't cost a lot?

I have a suggestion for MS: WHY DON"T YOU FIX THE AP!

Anyone know if there are any third party software programs that might be able to recover the backup?

I have heard of the deprecation, but unfortunately not before the backup was made. I'm afraid I'm sunk after wasting a great deal of time, which does not endear me to MS.

At Choose additional restore options window, I could not click on Format and repartition disks, and didn't click on Install drivers or Advanced but clicked on Next>.

I was able to add the USB drive as first boot option, and make it to Re-image your computer. The immediate message was: The system image restore failed Error details: windows did not find any disk which it can use for recreating volumes present in backup. Offline disks, cluster shared disks...

I'm sure I can get to the Advanced Options page (looks different) but I have not tried the Setup Repair Option. I will try later because I am making a installation media USB.

Are you suggesting to use Setup Repair rather than System Image Restore?

I does no good to create a backup now. The image on the computer now is just win 11.

Recreating the backup is not an option at this time. I backed up because of physical repairs that wiped the hard drive. Now I am trying to restore. I'm going to try using a bootable USB drive with Installation media installed.

At the Advanced startup, I have done the restart with a Repair disc and Windows Installation Media, both ways resulted in the same result, the message to create these discs.

I made a backup with Windows Backup and Restore before the hard drive was wiped and Windows 11 reinstalled. I have been unsuccessful to Restore the system backup. Settings - system - Recovery - Advanced startup (restart with Repair disc in external CDROM drive - Troubleshoot - Advanced Options...