System Image Creation Failure Windows11

[NoelRoy1]

While creating a system image on an external drive, using Backup and Restore (Windows 7) in Control Panel, I received the following message at the end of the process: "There was a failure while compacting the virtual hard disk on the backup location (0x80780151) The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request (0x800703E3)" I had previously successfully created a system image on the same drive. What is the problem, and how do I fix it? I'm using Windows 11.

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