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Windows system image is not very reliable, or flexible. It hasn't been all that popular, either.
Windows system image is not very reliable, or flexible. It hasn't been all that popular, either.
I went to turn off system protection and it was alread off for the HDD. It's on for the SSD I dont know if this matters. Also not sure if its pertinent but its an internal HDD not external.
That's unusual if you just created a system image on that drive.
See if you can find it like this:
open an elevated command prompt and type:
vssadmin list shadowstorage
then press enter
You will get something like this:
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\System32>vssadmin list shadowstorage
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (D:)\\?\Volume{3f6d44d7-6def-11e1-a06b-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (D:)\\?\Volume{3f6d44d7-6def-11e1-a06b-806e6f6e69
63}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 0 B (0%)
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 0 B (0%)
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 320 MB (1%)
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (G:)\\?\Volume{3f6d44d9-6def-11e1-a06b-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (G:)\\?\Volume{3f6d44d9-6def-11e1-a06b-806e6f6e69
63}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 27.375 MB (0%)
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 320 MB (0%)
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 1.05 GB (1%)
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (I:)\\?\Volume{3f6d44db-6def-11e1-a06b-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (I:)\\?\Volume{3f6d44db-6def-11e1-a06b-806e6f6e69
63}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 389.75 MB (1%)
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 673.016 MB (2%)
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 3.847 GB (15%)
how do i open an "elevated command prompt"?
It will be under E for elevated in the Tutorials section .
Tutorials link is at the top of this page
Click Tutorials (at the top of this page)
In the window that opens , click windows7-tutorial index.
Click E
It is the fourth one down
so am i right in thinking i need to be on the computer with the problem to do this?
Another possibility is that the alignment on your SSD has been mucked up. Run these commands in elevated command prompt:
Diskpart
List disk
Select disk n
List partition
Then tell me what the offset is. It should be a number that you can divide by 4.
ok so i did both things in elevated command prompt for SIW2: i got for my HDD
Used shadow copy storage space: 24.594 MB (0%)
Allocated Shadow Copy storage space: 2.93 GB (0%)
Maximum shadow copy storage space: 419.159 GB (15%)
for my SSD:
Used shadow copy storage space: 1.191 GB (2%)
Allocated Shadow Copy storage space: 1.503 GB (2%)
Maximum shadow copy storage space: 1.461 GB (2%)
What do i do with this information?
For whs: i got
Partition 1 offset: 1024 KB
Partition 2 offset: 101 MB <----not divisible by 4, i know so what does that mean?/how do i fix it?
BTW thanks so much for helping me, I'm just trying to get my first computer build to work and I know almost nothing.
Your alignment is fine. No problems there. The 101MB is fine because that is 101.000KB which is divisible by 4. The divison is always at the KB level.
You can try deleting it from your HD and see if that was causing the problem.
There is a tutorial on how to do that.
Shadow Copies - Delete