windows 8 Win8 - Windows 7 File Recovery Image Backup Fails

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I've been using Windows 7 Backup and Restore in Win7 for years to create images of laptops and desktops, and I've used the images to restore machines when their HDDs crashed and had to be replaced.  So I have a lot of confidence in its imaging

and recovery abilities.  So when I luckily found it buried in the Win8 control panel, I tried to use it to make a backup of my Dell Precision laptop (running Win 8 Ent x64).

I use an external 1-TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex drive to write my backups, and it currently has 749 GB of free space.  But when I attempt to make a backup of my C: Drive and the Recovery (System) volume, it returns an error that "There is not enough

disk space to create the volume shadow copy of the storage location . . . (0x80780119)".  Before I try to start the backup, it acknowledges the 749 GB of free space on the drive, and it indicates that the backup image will need approx. 59 GB of space.

I've run chkdsk against the Seagate drive, and it finished with no errors on the disk.

Anyone have any useful ideas for understanding the error?

 

 

 

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