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Windows Image Backup Fails--No Matter How Large the Backup Drive!
I'm building a new web server to replace a nearly 20 year old Dell machine that died in a power surge last Saturday.
Build is 21H1 19043.1348.
I've several Win 10 Pro systems and never encountered this particular error with backups before. Windows Image Backup has up to now, been reliable for me.
This new system came pre loaded with Win 10 Pro and an Admin account. Logged in as such, I cannot backup the 32GB bare bones Windows drive. I first tried the second internal 240GB drive, then a 1TB ext drive, then went out and bought an 8TB ext drive and each time the backup fails with an insufficient space error.
Research on this problem said something about running checkdisk, but when I tried that, I got an error that I don't have sufficient permission (as an admin) to perform this task.
I'm trying to make a backup image before I make major changes, so I have a baseline to return to. This is a fanless industrial PC with no optical drive--only internal SSD drives, so I cannot use something like Macrium on a CD to make a backup and restore.
Here's the error. What's causing this? Is it the way the manufacturer set it up, perhaps they locked down permissions too restrictively? How can I make it work properly?