Notification DLL not registered on image restore system non-responsive

I need to replace my hard drive, so I bought a new one and did an image restore. On rebooting my computer, Windows loads until a message appears "wireless configuration / notification dll has not been registered. program will not work correctly". When I clear the message box, I have a black screen with my mouse pointer. The mouse works correctly, but the Windows gui never materializes and the computer does not respond to any keystroke. When I try to start in safe mode, the windows files load, but then nothing happens. Is there something that needs to be done before restoring from image backup?

It is a laptop. Just replaced hard drive cartridge, slightly more capacity. No other hardware changes

Old drive works fine. Swapped it back in a couple of times.

Created windows image backup on external hd after running
Checkdisk/r. Then did image restore to new drive.

Re post 5, as I said in original post safe mode loads windows files to a point and stops dead.
I just launched from media and used cmd prompt to inspect directory on c drive. There is a directory called Recovery that is empty, and that is all. Think i need to try restoring the image again.