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

This description of the boot process may be useful:
reflect updates
Many people decide to do away with the system reserved which is what I was referring to by "the way you want to go". In my opinion a separate System Reserved facilitates:
1) Clean multibooting
2) BitLocker encryption
3) F8 - start windows in safe mode

and I keep it.

highstream said:

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.

So "Loading Operating System" and then a BSOD (which you didn't see because automatic restart on crash is on). MBR and bootsector wasn't the problem. I don't know the BSOD message so I don't know.

P is labeld page file but doesn't have a page file, that's what i wanna say.

So you did a clean install on SSD... so partitions are aligned properly.

All is working fine now?

mjf said:

This description of the boot process may be useful:
reflect updates
Many people decide to do away with the system reserved which is what I was referring to by "the way you want to go". In my opinion a separate System Reserved facilitates:
1) Clean multibooting
2) BitLocker encryption
3) F8 - start windows in safe mode

and I keep it.

3) F8 - start windows in safe mode => this has nothing to do with "system reserved" boot partition
1) Clean multibooting => boot partition must be an primary and active partition. OS partitions can be logical and inactive. So if you make your OS partition primary and active and put the bootmgr and bcd-menu (bootmenu) on it. It's working fine. But you can't simply delete that partition because it has the multiboot menu as well on it.

So seperating both tasks has some advantages.

2) BitLocker encryption => totally right.

Leave it the way it's now!

highstream said:

There is a pagefile.sys in L (formerly P) with 6gb. Is it not really one?

I did the clean install early last week. Here's how the partitions look now. Very grateful for your patient help.

You posted this before https://www.sevenforums.com/attachmen...dow-5-1-12.jpg

No page file in that screenshot on P (it's on C)

Check this:
To change page file settings in Windows 7:
In the Start Menu search box, type "Advanced System Settings" and choose the Control Panel applet that should show up, "View advanced system settings"
Under "Advanced" tab, "Performance" section, click "Settings..."
Under "Advanced" tab, "Virtual Memory" section, click "Change..."
These are the actual settings. Uncheck "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives" and you can change these settings. Highlight the drive you want it on, and select either a fixed size or system managed size (I prefer system managed size), and then click "Set". YOU HAVE TO CLICK THE SET BUTTON. Do the same to remove it from the drive you don't want it on. ("No paging file".)
Click OK, OK, OK, and you should be prompted for a reboot.

Settings were right?

Delete L:\pagefile.sys . It isn't used now!
since you have 6GB of memory, the pagefile isn't used frequently. Most of it's use is for read operations anyway. SSD life span will shorten in case of writes. But not that terribly nowadays. Put it on SSD only for speed!
Win7 on SSD: should I move page file?

Tip: Disable SSD partitions in your automatically defragmentation scheme. Defragmentatition is only usefull for HDD's! Defragmentation does a lot of write operations.