Windows 7 and 8 image on external hard drive?

Hello, I currently have a laptop running Windows 7. I also have system images of that on an external hard drive. My question though is, will making a backup image of a family members' laptop running windows 8 cause any problems?
I ask because I have seen recoveries be very picky with things, and I wouldn't want the Windows 8 image to corrupt/overwrite any of my previous Windows 7 images.
On the external hard drive I have three Windows 7 images already, circumventing the fact that my recovery likes to overwrite old images with the new one by simply adding something to the old image's file name. This is the drive I'd like to put the new Windows 8 image on.
Thank you in advance.
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I have Images of 2 XP machines and one Windows 7 machine.Haven't done an Image of my Windows 8 machine yet, but the others work.
The Images of XP were done with Marium since XP has no builtin Imaging app.One belongs to my daughter, the other belongs to a friend. I just recently restored one of the XP images.
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