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SJB

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#258487 6-Oct-2019 14:39
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I'm trying to use Macrium Reflect to clone a 68GB C: drive to a larger 1TB drive. This is on Win 7.

 

I'm getting the error 'Failed to create volume snapshot result code 0x8004231f'. Looking up the error it indicates that it is a VSS error insufficient storage space for shadow copy.

 

I saw a post and reply somewhere (not here) that suggested increasing the storage space for a shadow copy which I tried but the problem is that my current C drive is very nearly full with only around 200MB left so I restricted the increase to 20MB.

 

Does anyone know what sort of increase in vss storage I would need to get Macrium to work and how can I increase it by much if the disk is nearly full?


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bagheera
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  #2331429 6-Oct-2019 14:46
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300mb i think is the min for vss, if you have another drive to save it to, you could try

 

 

 

vssadmin add shadowstorage /for={drive letter} /on={drive letter}




astrae
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  #2331524 6-Oct-2019 18:03
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Create a recovery disc/USB stick in Macrium and boot from it. You can clone the drives from the recovery environment and don't have to worry about vss








SJB

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  #2332462 8-Oct-2019 11:33
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Thanks for the responses.

 

In the end I managed to free up some space on my existing C: drive, updated the file size parameter in Control Panel/System/System Protection to circa 700MB and the clone worked.


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