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Can you restore a Win10 image made with Back up and Restore (Windows 7) from a USB stick?

Using Back up and Restore (Windows 7) I created a Win10 system image on a USB external HDD.

In case anything happens to this EHDD, I later copied the image files to a spare USB stick.

However I have recently discovered that you can’t backup a system image to a stick.

My question is, can you RESTORE from a stick?

If the worst comes to the worst and I need to restore my OS image, and was to then discover that the EHDD has died in the interim, would I instead be able to restore from the stick within the recovery program without issue?