Windows 10: Not enough disk space to create volume shadow copy. Suspect recovery partition size to be...

Hello,I am trying to backup my c:drive to my x:SeagateBackup drive but I am getting the following error message.My seagate drive is freshly formatted and has 7.3 tb of free space and my c:drive has 1 tb of free space, but the Windows Recovery Environment only has 45 mb of free space. Is this the problem and is there a way to fix it?

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Windows System Image Fails - "There is not enough disk space to create the volume shadow copy..."

While creating a Windows System Image - if you encounter the error, ""There is not enough disk space to create the volume shadow copy...", check the size of the System Reserved Partition for the C: drive. It should be approximately 450mb - 500mb in size.

I encountered this error and my System Reserved Partition was only 50mb. So, I used MiniTool Partition Wizard to increase the size of the System Reserved Partition to approximately 500mb. And - afterwards, I was able to create the System Image.

 

How To: Create recovery partition.

it worked when i copied all the files of the disk to the recovery partition i created, but i had to use WinPE tab to add the entry.

Type: WIM Image (Ramdisk)
Name: Recovery
Path: Z:\Sources\boot.wim
and hit Add Entry
I tried it in VirtualBox and it worked.
At first, it would add a second "Windows 7" entry to the list, but when the installation is finished, the old one is deleted. (I formatted only C: partition)

 

How to increase EFI and Recovery partitions size using only Microsoft tools?

Hello,

I need to be able to increase size of EFI and Recovery partitions because there is not enough free space on them to allow creating System Image backup on external disk (I keep getting error message "there is not enough disk space to create the volume shadow copy on the storage location"). I am not satisfied with answers on the Internet suggesting to use a paid, 3rd party solutions to do that. I don't believe that Microsoft does not have their own tools to resize system created partitions. Please kindly suggest how to resize those partitions using Microsoft tools only or, alternatively, how can I do a System Image backup without getting the abovementioned error and without having to use 3rd party solutions (Windows 11 already has its own solution, which for some reason does not work for me).

Many thanks.