System Imaging error

After reading the SF tutorial on Backup, I get this error when trying to create a new Backup/System Image. I have Windows 7 Ultimate. The destination drive is a new 1T external hard drive. I reformatted it to be save. Windows allows me to select the drive as the destination drive. However I get the above error. How can it be out of space or too small for the backup data, I have no idea.

If Windows wants the backup to be put on a DVD, why does it allow me to select an external hard drive?

Please help. Thanks

Hello Gandolf, :)

What do you currently have set for the max size of system protection for all drives included in the system image?

System Protection - Change Disk Space Usage

Do you have less than 1GB of free space on all drives included in the system image?

I made the change from 0% to 100%.
That fixed the error, but still no joy.
I thought the above might help.
I found a post by A Guy...

Start> Right click Computer> Manage
Select Storage> Disk management
Verify that you have a System Reserved partition of 100 MB
If yes, right click on this volume and select Properties.
View used and free space.

A Guy didn't say what to do if it was No.
Is a System Reserve area needed?
If so, how to I create it?

Why do you even muck around with the defunct windows imaging. I use free Macrium and never have any problems.

Looks a bit like you went from a HDD to an SSD and didn't cleanup in the process. The old System reserved on disk 1 is still active. You shouldn't have it active. You can cleanup disk 1 (eventually) and get rid of the little system reserved.

The first thing to do would be to disconnect disk 1 and make sure your your system boots. If it doesn't then you are booting through the system reserved on disk 1. If it boots then plug disk 1 back in and change the active status of system reserved disk 1 to not active.

Edit Add:
Not that it's confusing enough. I am referring to your screenshot disk numbering (ie. 0, 1, 2). On disk 2 your OS partition is active not the 100MB system reserved. This means that if you are booting ok without disk 1 then you are booting through the OS partition and not the system reserved in front of it.

All's good now.
System Image and Backup.
Thanks for all the help.

Great news.