Easeus todo for images?

I'll be sure to update here if I get to the bottom of it. Chkdsk didn't take that long. I wasn't watching it but I came back upstairs after an hour and it had completed, I don't know specifically how long but there was nothing found. I was able to run it from within Windows. I followed the instructions Disk Check here but unticked both boxes to just get a report of errors did exist rather than try to fix/repair/recover. It did go quicker than expected although I am not experienced with this type of troubleshooting - I did think it was going to be another all evening affair!

Ok, how can I ensure that happens? I followed the guide. Anyway I posted on the BSOD forum with details of my system and the long error code from the BSOD. Someone has asked me to run HD tune and send various results so maybe this will uncover something. I'm guessing it'll take a few hours so will kick this off tomorrow. My feeling is HD corruption though, it's as if the HD drops during the image process completely and I guess the reason no mini dump writes is because there is no possibility to write any details to the HD at that moment. Total speculation on my part though and of course I lack the expertise to back that up. Just a feeling I have on it.

You have a weird situation i've never seen so take everything i say with a grain of salt.
As a backup seems to always fail around 95%, it sounds like something THERE is corrupt.
But, so far all the "Disk Check" utilities show the HD is healthy and no errors.

I think you're using Macrium V5, so i don't know what options you have.

I have Macrium V6 and if i had your issue, i'd try using some options i highlighted

I do have reflect v6. But I am a novice at its use and more used to Windows one. Whilst I am concerned at how both macrium and Windows image bork at a seemingly similar point which points at some kind of worrying corruption I will try those options on macrium. I was unaware of them. I'm going to run the HD tune tests / benchmarks too. Chkdsk came up ok but I think mjf was right - it finished too fast to make me think it did a detailed scan.

Luckily we do have alternate desktop machine to fall back on. But ideally want to keep this laptop going. It was nearly £2500 when I bought it 5 years ago and is still strong spec. Plus Windows 7 has better compatibility for certain things so we will never allow the free upgrade to 10 go into it. Our other machine came with Windows 10 - I know it's the future but we really don't care for Windows 10 much and the bugs are putting us off. Sorry that's going off topic.

Here is the disk management. Yes I do have an SSD in the laptop but not a conventional one. It's OCZ synapse cache SSD and only activates with dataplex software. Once activated it works with the main HD to provide near SSD performance across whole drive by keeping hot data on the SSD and synchronising with the main HD. At the moment the SSD dataplex software is disabled as a restriction of it's use is you cannot image a system with dataplex enabled. So in effect the SSD is redundant and it's just the main HD in use.

I ran HD tune for a detailed scan and got BSOD again at more or less same point.

Thanks,
Wayne

Lots of game installs. I know it's a lot and maybe should of been done on a different partition from start. But I've run it like this for years. Moving it to new partition I guess will have bad ramifications for the installs, registry etc