System Image Issues with builtin Windows BU and WinRE environment...

Hi,

We use Windows BU to create a system image for use in Recovery. We have a single SSD with a boot C: and D: partitions.

The drive image is stored on a motherboard soldered emmc drive with a recovery partition for WinRE.

Anyway, this has been working fine for a long long time on many systems, but recently we have an issue where the drive image is including the (I think ) the emmc itself and so when you go to select it for recovery you get an error.
In the past if you select the recovery image it lists only the expected C: and D: drives/partitions. But now it's including a third drive \\?\Volume\{long GUID}

Anyone know how to remove this third drive from the image? Or what we might be (unintentionally) doing different during the creation of the image?

I've attached a picture of the three drives listed in the image file.

Thanks!
Ken

Hi - Thanks for all the info. It's Win10. I didn't know/think SevenForums literally meant only Win7. My bad!

In case Win10 is not a sin (it rhymes) the idea is to restore the image from the builtin Recovery Environment so that no 3rd party app or usb boot drive or anything like that is required. I will look into the tools you reference above to see if they offer any support for editing system bu images or creating them compatible with winRE.
It's nice when it works. Just tell the user to reboot into winRE and select the restore image. Just need to figure out what we did to break it!
Thanks

Very cool. I feel like what I need is to remove the emmc backup from the vhdx(s) WinRE complains that it's restoring a disk that is included in the image (the emmc disk). But I never wanted to backup that disk in the first place. It's just there to hold the bu image for C: and D:.

So If I could create the system backup image correctly (with DiskGenius?) with only C: and D: then I could put that on emmc drive and it would probably work. What do you think?
That's if I create a NEW bu image.
I was thinking another option would be to edit the existing BU Image and remove the unwanted emmc files and leave only the desired C: and D:

Let me know what you think. I'm going to ask the DiskGenius guys too.

Well thanks for all the help. Saved me a ton of time and gave me a few ideas. Headin' home! Have a Great Weekend!