System Image backup fails - not enough space for Volume Shadow Copy

After the first time, I tried changing it to a logical partition, but no difference. Windows Startup repair didn't solve it. Had to use the backup image. One guess is that after making changes to the partition, I needed to reestablish or fix the boot record. Can't (or didn't see how to) do that with EaseUs, but that's where Partition Wizard would have come in handy. I'm not clear why changes to another HDD, even disconnected, would hangup the system drive, but it did. The two drives or partitions in question were the XP drive and the XP clone for previous builds of this computer, first when it was an XP system, then a dual boot (used easy BCD). I had just recently changed mobo/cpu from AMD to Intel and switched to Win 7 only.

The C (and D) partitions are SSD, the others HDDs. I was able to get rid of the small unallocated chunks on all the drives but the SSD - or maybe even there, not sure. I used EaseUs to bring a 0.2mb section at the far right into the adjoining partition and it no longer shows in that app, but with Partition Wizard it still shows as there. Doing the same operation with PW appears to work until the result, which still shows the 0.2mb unallocated partition.

I don't believe that there was ever a specific error message. After "Loading Operating System," Windows would flash back to computer reboot, then the second time give the couldn't-start-needs-repair message, with System Repair or Start Windows as the choices. Sys Repair would run for awhile, be unable to fix the problem and so I chose Advanced Repair and then image restore.

P not paging (now L)? Not sure what you mean because it's right there in Disk Mgt.

In setting up after installing the new mobo/cpu, I tried transferring Win 7 - there's a tutorial how at this site - but finally had to bite the bullet and go clean, and just happened to have a new SSD to use for it. In the process, the XP drive got messed up, so I used the clone to restore it. That's why two drives were named the same. However, I clean installed Win 7 on the new SSD without the other drives attached for quite awhile, and when I hooked XP clone, it never came up as a dual boot choice.

Hi there
Not trying to hi-jack the thread but Windows 7 image backup really isn't that great -- the whole Volume shadowing idea when running a backup is just a load of Dog ....

For backup use a commercial backup program --they don't cost a fortune, are usually very flexible and the amount of time you save MORE than makes up for the relatively small cost of the program --usually around 40 USD.

You might even find some free versions but they tend to have limited capability.

BTW on restore whatever program you use ensure the BOOT partition is set to ACTIVE. This might be the small reserved system partition if this was created when you installed windows. If you have this partition then also ensure that the main Windows partition ("C") on restore is set to a PRIMARY partition.

If you are using GPT disks then other considerations apply -- haven't had any experience of these yet for using as a boot partition).


Cheers
jimbo

Windows recovery can restore one of its own image backups, but I found with EaseUS's free version that their image couldn't be restored if Windows wasn't booting, at least not without a recovery CD made with their program, I assume Windows' image has worked three times for me in the past few days, which is hard to argue with. Perhaps in other circumstances it wouldn't?

The original problem is solved and the discussion turned to what might have led to it. Looking at that first screenshot again, wouldn't have switching Active from the Reserved partition to C solved the problem? I resized the Reserved partition to 300mb and just set C as Active.