My HD crashed on my laptop. I have a windowsimagebackup saved on my desktop. My Laptop is Windows 7 32 bit and desktop is Windows 7 64 bit. I installed new HD and loaded windows 7 32 bit back to laptop. I can't get the windowsimagebackup to take when going to disk management and attaching VHD. The virtual drive gets nothing saved to it. It creates the virtual HD but the drive is still 100% available. I have tried moving the ImageBackup to laptop HD and attaching from there as well as from an external and also through the network from the desktop where it was saved. It's about 180 GB.
I have also tried going through system recovery and locating it through there to restore the system image but it never is able to locate through any of the options even when doing advanced and typing in the network location. It keeps telling me network path not available or something like that even though it is correct.
Can someone please help. This is very frustrating. I have read I don't know how many blogs with no successful advice.