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Backup to image, create system repair disk fails...
I am trying create a backup image of my Win7 OS on a system that has these drives:
The available space for the volumes listed varies from 29GB (K) to 218GB (F), the backup requires 25GB available storage to complete the image creation. No matter which drive selected for saving the image, the backup fails. The error message goes a long way about not enough disk space, please see the image below...Code:DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 J DVD-ROM 0 B No Media Volume 1 I DVD-ROM 0 B No Media Volume 2 D Win NTFS Partition 154 GB Healthy Volume 3 G NTFS Partition 143 GB Healthy Volume 4 E Games NTFS Partition 298 GB Healthy Volume 5 System Rese NTFS Partition 100 MB Healthy System Volume 6 H NTFS Partition 297 GB Healthy Volume 7 F Application NTFS Partition 298 GB Healthy Volume 8 C NTFS Partition 119 GB Healthy Boot Volume 9 K PATRIOT NTFS Removable 29 GB Healthy
Creating system repair disk fails with an unspecified error as well, which is ok in a sense; I do have retail version of Windows 7.
A little background how the current volumes came about...
Drive H and F has/had my previous version of Windows 7 that I think I can still boot. My current Windows 7 has been installed on the C drive without realizing that the "System" partition remained on Volume 6 or H drive.
Maybe having the System and Boot volumes on a different drive prevent creating the repair disk and backing up the image. If that's the case, is there a way moving the System partition to drive C without reinstalling Windows 7? I don't believe that it matters, but the C drive is an SSD drive.
TIA...
Cr00zng