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To restore a whole drive including your Windows installation you have to start your PC from a Windows installation disc or a system repair disc. You will then be able to select an image of the drive you want to restore. This image has to be located on a different hard drive than the one containing the drive you want to restore.
 To recover a 32-bit version of Windows you need a 32-bit system repair medium and to recover a 64-bit version of Windows you need a 64-bit system repair medium.
Creating a system repair medium - Windows Workstation
Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 and Vista, lets you create a system repair disc that can be used for various things like repairing the bootloader or recovering Windows from a system image. You can start the program to create a system repair disc from within Z-DBackup. (The Quick Menu can be enabled in the program settings under the tab setup)
See also: System Repair Disc
Creating a system repair medium - Windows Server
Windows Server operating systems don't have a tool build in to create a system repair disc, but you can acces the recovery and troubleshooting tools from the Windows installation disc or restart your computer, press F8 and select the option 'Repair Computer'.
System Image Recovery
0.Boot your computer from a system repair disc or a Windows installation disc. You might have to change the boot order in the BIOS to boot from a CD or USB stick. For Windows Vista and Windows 7 all USB mediums used for recovery have to be connected to USB 2 ports because these operating systems don't contain USB 3 drivers naitively.
1.Find and choose the option "System Image Recovery" in the menu. The menu looks different on different system repair disc Windows versions.
2.Follow the instructions of the system recovery tool.
Windows System Backup
•System Backup
•Backup
•Source
•Target - HDD
•Target - Network
•UNC
•Settings
•Before/After
•Image Catalog
•Image Explorer
•RDX
•Windows Server
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