Need to refresh old Win 8 system image

[Dcorlisslai]

Hi guys, Its my first time posting here so I am not too sure where to put this.

 

I have an ACER V3-571G laptop that came with Win 8 OEM, I removed the 750 HDD (Backed up the OS first as a System Image) It had a lot of work that was important to me. I had kept the backup from Summer (2014-07-22) but now I want to restore the image and use win 8 easy transfer to put everything back on the my desktop but the laptop does not run win 8 anymore. so I installed 8 Enterprise Evaluation onto it but the OS will not recognise the image. 

I assume that the ACER was running Win 8.0 CORE at the time, I back it up, removed the hdd to desktop and haven't been using the original image since. I own 8.1 Pro/ am using Windows 10 Technical Preview. 

Some help on how to restore that specific image would be awesome. Thanks in advance.

[SubTract]

So when you go to recovery in the control panel and select open system restore. It doesn't let you open your old system restore?

 

I would warn do not restore your system backup on different hardware.

[Dcorlisslai]

So when you go to recovery in the control panel and select open system restore. It doesn't let you open your old system restore?

 

I would warn do not restore your system backup on different hardware.

 

I have selected system restore but its still not responding.

Also, I am trying to restore the image on the exact same hardware (Except the hard drive)

[SubTract]

Ahh man. It is possible that the actual image is corrupt and the program can't read it.

It's also possible that there is a windows recovery software. It might be worth removing it from windows programs and features (Under the windows components section) the re-installing it through the add windows components part.