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Restoring a System Image Backup on Surface Pro 3

Anonymous
2015-12-10T11:03:45+00:00

This summer I tried to upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 on my Surface Pro 3. The upgrade failed (the system couldn't find any network devices after the upgrade) and I had to restore to Windows 8.1, keeping my files, but needed to reinstall all apps and programs to get back to my original state. I am now very reluctant to retry the upgrade unless I can find a less time-consuming way to restore the system, should the upgrade fail.   

I have found the option of taking a System Image Backup (in the left pane menu of File History in Control Panel).

If I have this System Image Backup ready on an USB-drive, is there any way to restore my Surface from it? I can't find any information on this specific case, just on restoring from a Recovery System Image, which I think is another thing. Does anybody know?

Thank you in advance,

Lars

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-12-10T12:54:55+00:00

    On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:03:49 +0000, LarsSeger wrote:

    >>If I have this System Image Backup ready on an USB-drive, is there any way to restore my Surface from it? I can't find any information on this specific case, just on restoring from a Recovery System Image, which I think is another thing. Does anybody know?

    http://www.howtogeek.com/220986/how-to-use-all-of-windows-10%E2%80%99s-backup-and-recovery-tools/

    has most of the information you want.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-21T01:22:49+00:00

    Thank you Barb,

    The link might be helpful, but in my scenario Windows 10 is not working after the upgrade, so I will have to revert to windows 8.1 and try to restore from there. As I don't have Windows 10 available now, the bootable USB-disk that I can prepare will have Windows 8.1. Will the restore options described in the article be available in Windows 8.1 as well?

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-21T10:35:53+00:00

    On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 01:22:49 +0000, LarsSeger wrote:

    >>Will the restore options described in the article be available in Windows 8.1 as well?

    http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-81-tip-use-system-image-backup

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    Windows Experience MVP

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