Recovery Image Woes

jdf202

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I have an internal disk with a brand new Windows 7 installation and another disk with a Win7 image backup I made before another drive croaked. I use a USB stick to boot into the recovery mode because the CDROM/DVD on the computer is dead.

When I boot from the USB and try a restore, I get a 0x80070057 error. I read some online posts that talked about regional settings and adding a registry entry. I couldn't do this to the USB, so I made them to the new Win7 installation and booted it into recovery.

The problem is that the recovery process wants to make a CD and the drive doesn't work so the restore keeps bombing.

Is there any way to do a WIn7 restore and bypass this step to create a CD?
 
Solution
Here is the conclusion to the saga. I applied the following solutions and the problem was solved.
1. I set decimal and added a registry key as per this webpage https://superuser.com/questions/795099/windows-backup-is-unable-to-start-error-0x80070057
2. I requested this hotfix from Microsoft, but didn't need to use it (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2569601/restore-operation-by-using-backup-and-restore-may-fail-in-windows-7-sp
3. The key clue came from this post (https://superuser.com/questions/607788/why-do-i-get-error-0x80070057-the-parameter-is-incorrect-when-restoring-from). I am booting from a USB and so this is a drive with no backup files. I unplug it as per this post and the restore proceeeded.
4. Success!

jdf202

Prominent
Dec 29, 2017
2
0
520
Here is the conclusion to the saga. I applied the following solutions and the problem was solved.
1. I set decimal and added a registry key as per this webpage https://superuser.com/questions/795099/windows-backup-is-unable-to-start-error-0x80070057
2. I requested this hotfix from Microsoft, but didn't need to use it (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2569601/restore-operation-by-using-backup-and-restore-may-fail-in-windows-7-sp
3. The key clue came from this post (https://superuser.com/questions/607788/why-do-i-get-error-0x80070057-the-parameter-is-incorrect-when-restoring-from). I am booting from a USB and so this is a drive with no backup files. I unplug it as per this post and the restore proceeeded.
4. Success!
 
Solution