Basically Yes. The way I described does not require booting from recovery disk. Keep in mind the system image will be the entire system drive. In my case C Drive.My C drive is over 400 GB. So the only practical way is to have a large backup drive. I use a 1 TB M.2 NVME SSD Drive for System (C) and a 1TB M.2 NVME SSD for image to be stored on. I typically do a system image once a week or if any major update is installed.