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Cannot take a system image from my SSD
I've been trying to take a system image from my laptop (which is a 256 GB SSD, used only till 45%) to an external hard drive (on a partition of about 256 GB).
Every time I try, I get this error message "Windows could not find backup devices on this computer. The following information might explain why this problem occurred: Incorrect function. (0x80070001). Close Windows Backup and try again".
I can view the external HDD through Windows Explorer and there is no problem either reading or writing to the external HDD in the usual course of operation. I checked if TRIM was working and it is, so I cannot understand the problem.
The only explanation I could come up with was that since the system image makes an EXACT sector by sector copy, and the storage framework of the SSD being vastly different from that of the HDD (?), the system image function would not work in this particular combination.
I wonder if anyone else had this very same problem, and what, if anything they did about it. Do you think an SSD to an external SSD combination would work? Doesn't Windows 10 come with a "SSD-HDD-SSD sector translator" (aka driver)?