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The reason my response was longer was that I was trying to communicate the technical realities. Clearly for you this has been a failure.
On this matter I disagree with gregrocker. I don't know of any imaging package that doesn't allow you to select the 100MB System Reserved partition (MS imaging forces you to). But more importantly the MBR is a totally different entity to the System reserved partition. Selecting MBR to save or recover has nothing to do with the System reserved.
Your last paragraph indicates you didn't read what I said. Some people appear to have problems with MS imaging, other people prefer the flexibility and features of other imaging software. I primarily use MS imaging but also Macrium as a safeguard and for flexibility when I need it.