Create System Image - Not enough space to create the volume shadow copy

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Usual problem. Ages ploughing through websites and trying the usual stuff

Eventually it turns out to be a classic MSFU.


In my case I have 2 HDD on the PC both with partitions.

I was trying to backup the C: drive on Disc 1. Disc 1 has 3 partitions all which have the required minimum amount of space

Then I noticed that Disc 2 (not involved in the back up in any way) had a very small partition/volume P: size 100MB whose free space was below < 50MB

I expanded the partition to get more than 50MB and everything worked fine.


Microsoft, please tell me why your image program fails to work when a Disc not involved in the image (let alone a partition) fails the shadow volume minimum size test!!


Just hope this helps someone else

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