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System Image backup seems to have stalled after 36 hours
After restoring my computer for 3 days (lots of software) due to a bad sector on the C harddisk, I decided to create a System Image using Windows (I have Windows Home Premium x64). First I encountered the problem with the boot partition being full (100MB - 100% used) and thus not allowing to create the volume shadow copy. I managed to solve this (thanks to info on forums) with Easeus Partition Manager - increased the size of the partition to 300MB- about 75% free space.
Then I started the System Image Backup on Thursday night around 11:30pm. By the next morning the backup still wasn't finished (I think it did about 40%) and the free space on the external hard disk on which I am making the backup reads 118GB free of 931GB. The backup is about 230GB and when I started there was about 330GB free on this disk.
On Friday night 9pm and the backup seems to be at about 55%. Harddisk still reads 118GB free of 931GB.Boot partition is still 137MB used - 162MB free. Size of the backup on the external drive is 214GB.
Next day Saturday at 1pm (or 36hours after launching the backup) progress seems to show about 75% but the external drive still reads 118GB free of 931GB.Boot partition is still 137MB used - 162MB free. Size of the backup on the external drive is still 214GB.I abort the backup since it does not seem to write anything. I would appreciate if somebody from Microsoft would tell me what I did wrong and how to make a succesful system image backup. Attached are screenshots of the eventviewer and the boot partition status, as well as a txt file with VSS log data.