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Windows System image and VHD problem.
Okay, I have Windows Pro 64, and use it terribly. I'm always testing software and whatnot and usually get my install messed and mucked up in a few months, so I've in love with System Imaging, because I just restore it and everything's good.
I have my Image on another partition on separate drive, for safety, but stupidly, I quick formatted the partition(!), but, luckily I managed to get my image back, but not in the format Windows readily sees (WindowsImage), but in its native format, .vhd.
Upon reading Microsoft socials forums, "You wouldn’t be able to restore VHD files using backup and restore center. You can mount the image by following the steps below", apparently Windows wont see that format as a System Image backup and I cant restore from that image, which sucks and makes no sense (Microsoft can really be amateurs at this stuff). My question is": Does this apply to ALL ways of restoring the image (Native restoring before boot and pressing F8 and System disk restoring)?
In the past I have ran into problems with System restore trying to restore a corrupt image, and messing things up badly, and this being a seemingly corrupt image, I'm wondering if any of you have tried to do this and ran into problems, or if really cant be done. I've read that Acronis CAN do it, if I want to buy their True Image Home, which I don't, but that's why it doesn't make sense that Windows cant do this natively.