If you use the Professional edition, you can also set a scheme to automatically delete old backups to free up space for the next backup, so the backup drive will never run into low disk space. If you want to restore the system image backup to another computer which has dissimilar hardware in the future, it is suggested to try Universal Restore feature of Professional edition or higher.Īfter the backup completes, you can create a bootable media, so you can restore the backup when system in unbootable. Scheduled backup can be performed as Full/incremental/Differential backup. You can also set up a schedule to automatically create system image backup to protect your newly added files and programs. You should save the backup to external hard drive, NAS or other offsite locations. You can save system backup image to the system disk with AOMEI Backupper, but it is not advisable. The program will select all the system and boot related partitions automatically, so you just need to select the destination path. Click the Backup tab and then select System Backup.
It has full support for both GPT and MBR disk, so it can backup disks larger than 2TB successfully. It provides 3 image compression level for you to choose, so you certainly will not have the not enough space issue.
Either way, you will not meet the volume shadow copy error. This freeware supports backup using Microsoft VSS or its own technology.
If you are still unable to backup Windows 7/8/10/11 with System Image Backup after trying all these steps, you can turn to third-party free backup software AOMEI Backupper Standard. An alternative way to create system image backup without having these issues vhdx, which does not have the size limitation. In the later versions of Windows, system image backup is saved in an advanced virtual disk format.
To work this around, you can shrink your volume or upgrade your system to Windows 8 or Windows 10/11.
With this limitation, Windows 7 will not allow you to backup volume larger than 2088958MB. When you try to create a VHD file, it cannot be larger than 2040GB. In Windows 7, Windows backup creates a virtual hard disk (.vhd) to store the image file. This error only happens when you are trying to backup volumes larger than 2TB in Windows 7. Situation 3: Volumes larger than 2088958 megabytes cannot be protected For volumes large than 500 megabytes, 320 megabytes at least. To fix this problem, you should free up more space on the system drive or extend the system partition.įor volumes that you are trying to backup are less than 500 megabytes, there should be 50 megabytes of free space. Situation 2: Not enough disk space to create the volume shadow copyĪs the error message indicates, the error is caused by not enough free space on the source partition that you are trying to backup. System restore points will also create shadow copies and give you another layer of protection to your system and files.Īfter a system restore point is created, you can try system image backup again. If the system image backup still fails in Windows 7/8/10/11, you can enable System protection and create system restore points. When this finishes, you should be able to create system image backup without errors. This will fix this problem or at least tell you what went wrong. Then type “SFC /SCANNOW” (without quotes) and press Enter.
Press Windows + X key to open a command prompt. You can try the following steps to troubleshoot and fix the problem. Situation 1: Has the shadow copy on another volumeĪs the error message indicates, there are some problems with the target backup location that caused Windows backup unable to save image backup there. (0x807800B4).īased on your own situation, you can find the corresponding solution to your problem. Volumes larger than 2088958 megabytes cannot be protected. There is not enough disk space to create the volume shadow copy of the storage location (0x80780119).ģ. The specified backup storage location has the shadow copy storage on another volume (0x80780038).Ģ. System backup failure is mainly in three situations:ġ. However, due to some causes, system image backup may fail.
Therefore, many users have the habit to create system image backup in case of unexpected system issues or data loss. It allows you to perform a full system restore when your computer stops working, so you do not need to reinstall all Windows or programs again. System image backup failed due to many reasonsĪ Windows System Image backup contains all the system files and personal files on your system partition at a point of time.