Easeus todo for images?

If you haven't run a Check Disk already you could try that.
Disk Check
Check Disk (chkdsk) - Read Event Viewer Log

To see the BSOD window you need to have Automatically restart unchecked.
Also make sure you have it configured to save a Dump file in case you ever need that.

Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings > Startup and Recovery / Settings

Thanks I'll give chkdsk a go tomorrow. I'll just do a scan initially because it seems it could take a long time if I choose recover or repair options.

I do think there must be a bad sector as suggested. I have the feeling the HD is on borrowed time. If I can't get too far I'll guess I'll replace the computer. It would be a shame as it's still mighty powerful and I like Windows 7. We have another machine with Windows 10 on it and am not too impressed with the OS. Looks nice and all but many bugs at the moment.

Anyway I'll update soon, cheers guys

Thanks guys. I need to ponder on this. I ran chkdisk and frustratingly it reported no errors. So that and seagate tools have come up clean reporting no issues. Clearly something in the OS. Restarting from factory image is something I really wanted to avoid. I do have critical data backed up, it's just all the effort over the years setting everything up. All the carefully crafted game installs and manipulation a of games explorer etc etc. I would take forever to get back to where I was at.

It's good there are no chkdsk errors/bad secors, that should mean the HD is not starting to fail.

I would ask the BSOD team for help in the BSOD Help and Support sub-forum.
BSOD Help and Support

For that you will need a Dump file.
If you don't have one already, configure your Startup and Repair settings like I showed in Post # 62, and run another Macrium backup to cause another BSOD and generate the Dump file.

Here are the posting instructions for a BSOD:
Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) Posting Instructions

Ok will do, cheers David

Ok, I ran the image on C: again. I will post over in BSOD forum too. But just in case anything jumps out. I took a pic of the BSOD and waited ages on the screen for it to initialise the dump but it never finished. When I check C: windows\minidump after forced switch of and reboot there was nothing in there.

here are some pics, showing the point of freeze 95% (it's always at this point), the pop up showing port 0 in bottom right and about a minute later the BSOD that appeared. To re-iterate, chkdsk found 0 errors/problems, Seagate tools finds no errors, normal usage of the OS never crashes. I can only re produce this by trying a system image. It happens on both the in built MS disk image tool and also with Macrium.