I'm planning on performing a clean installation of Windows 10 Pro, and am planning on creating a system image to use to recover all my data after the installation. My question is, will the recovery of the system image bring back my computer to the exact current state it is while I'm typing this, and will it affect the fresh Windows 10 Pro installation?
Thanks.
A system image is simply your system disk as when it was created.
will the recovery of the system image bring back my computer to the exact current state
Yes, restoring the image will return the system, meaning disk and its contents, including Windows and user data, to its exact state as when it was taken.
will it affect the fresh Windows 10 Pro installation?
There will be no fresh Windows installation. Restoring the image will return the old installation and old user data. Everything done after the image was created will be lost.
