With Macrium Reflect, can you make an image of your C: partition and have it back it up to the D: partition all on the same HDD? Reason I'm asking is to make my own "recovery partition" on my friends laptop that I'm working on and when I tried this it would get somewhere between 15-19 seconds left and then error out with an I/O error.
PC Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate x86
Intel Pentium Dual CPU T3200 @ 2.00GHz
3 GB RAM
250GB HHD
Yes that is possible. I do that on my own laptops for an on-the-road emergency recovery. For a serious imaging, you should though use an external disk. That would also protect you when the disk goes on the blink.
The I/O error must have a different reason. Run a chkdsk /r on that partition.
@whs,
It's actually the F: partition (I got the drive letters mixed up) and it is 30GB and there is only 15.50 GB used on my C: partition which is about 200GB.
@SJ,
I didn't change any of the settings.
On my desktop I've never run into problems with Macrium and all settings are default as well.
Here is the error message:
I looked in the Macrium forums on that error and the admin suggest running chkdsk /r /f in Command Prompt. It can apparently be caused by bad sectors which Macrium can't read. The other possible cause is with the vss. Here's what they say:
Please check your Windows Event log for VSS errors. It is possible that the shadow copy is failing due to space allocation problems.
To see the amount of storage space allocated and used for Volume Shadow Copies run the following command from a command prompt with elevated privileges:
Vssadmin list shadowstorage
To allocate more storage (e.g. 20GB) run the following command:
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=20GB
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