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Windows 10 Repair, Recovery, Restore .... Imaging Native to Windows

I can do this:
Make an image of a hard drive using Acronis or Clonezilla or .....
Restore that image onto a new hard drive (for the same computer just to keep things simple here).
That's pretty easy and reliable.

But what if I don't really want to boot to a Clonezilla DVD and would want to do the "same thing" natively in Windows?
I tried to read about it but my head couldn't take all the "R"s.  
(I remember when there were a bunch of guys dressed up in white costumes shaped like a giant "R" in Rainier Beer commercials   :-)

I find in Windows 10:
Control Panel \ All Control Panel Items \ Backup and Rstore (Windows 7):
Create a system image.  That seems a good start!
Create a system repair disc.  That sounds good too!

But being careful, I want to know that I can create a "System Repair Disk" on one Wndows 10 system and use it on another?   Not the IMAGE, the "System Repair Disc" only.  And, what about 32-bit vs. 64-bit systems having created this "System Repair Disc"??  Does one size fit all or not?

It seems like a simple question and one which one would want to think would be YES and YES or, at least YES and NO so there'd have to be 2 DVDs to cover all systems, etc. etc.

But, when I tried to research this topic I didn't find what I was looking for.
Maybe I didn't try hard enough.
So, here I am.

What might you suggest?
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I dont' understand how replies can go missing here....
I responded to this earlier.

Anyway,  I tried doing this on a Windows 10 Pro 64 system.  I created the image on an external USB HD.
I created the system repair disc CD on the same computer so it surely matches.
I ran the CD and the process did not find the external USB hard drive with the image on it.
So this failed.

Then I built a "System Recovery Disc" (which I learned means a USB thumb drive).
I tried it the same way.
The system sees both the USB thumb drive and the USB external HD when selecting the boot drive.
But once booted to the USB System Recovery Disc, once more the USB external HD is not seen and the image not targetable.

Very discouraging.
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David Johnson:  Thank you!  I'd not used VEEAM Endpoint Backup and decided to look into it on your suggestion.  I rather figured that there were driver issues with the Microsoft solution and didn't know, or want to learn, how to work around that.  Of course, Clonezilla works fine but doesn't run under Windows.  So this seems to meet that objective.  It seems similar to a resident-installed Acronis.

I have it runnning now and and have done a full restore with it.  
It's very crisply presented / easy to use.  Not a lot of foolishness with strange terms.
Maybe a hint or two about how to add the drivers to the MSWindows tool would help someone else....  even a link.
Thank you both!

My current experience with VEEAM is limited.  The first system went without a hitch.  The second system was a bit tricky.  I used it to replace a hard drive and the restore process hung up.  The original HD had 3 partitions.  Restoring it intact didn't work but I don't recall the exact messages.  So, I tried restoring on the C: partition only and that worked.  So I still have trepidations about VEEAM but still like it.