Windows Image Backup on different drive

[Akari]

My SSD (Crucial M4) is dying. Windows is coming up with warnings and it fails to boot most, but thankfully not all, of the time. I've phoned up Crucial and they told me to send the drive to them, but then I'll be without a boot drive. Coincidentally, I made a full image backup of that drive just a few days beforehand, and so I want to restore from it, as I don't trust just cloning the drive in it's current state. I have a spare HDD that's okay to format, and I'm fine living without an SSD for a week or two, but, when I tried to restore the image from a fresh install on my HDD, it restored the SSD instead! How can I get it to restore properly so I don't have to waste hours setting everything up from scratch?

[MrBucket101]

maybe this will help?

 

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/9064-system-image-recovery-restore-image-computer-windows-8-a.html

[Akari]

Somewhat, but I kept just getting "Incorrect Parameter" errors when I tried to restore, even after trying to copy the system reserved partition with a Linux live CD. Given up for now and resigned myself to reinstalling, but, if anyone has any bright ideas, the system image is still there.