Windows 10: Not enough disk space to create volume shadow copy - Windows Recovery Environment

I am trying to create a system image but keep getting greeted by the bottom image.Reading the criteria, < 500MB, 50MB > 500MB, 320MBThen looking at my volumes:System reserved: 50MB required, 63.49MB free OKD: N/AC: 320MB required, free ~30GB OKWindows Recovery Environment: 50MB required, 49.09MB free NOT OKBut I can't see a way to free space on Windows Recovery Environment. I tried shrinking C by 100MB but this just left 100MB unallocated, and I can't allocate it to the WRE. Strangely, in disk management the WRE shows as being completely empty

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Shadow Copy With Storage Spaces?

1 Create shadow storage

1.1 The System protection tab in System Properties

• this GUI only lists NTFS volumes, so you can't create shadow storage for ReFS volume there
  
• instead try one of:
  
  • vssadmin add shadowstorage /for=D: /on=D: /maxsize=100GB (Windows Server only)
    
    • alternatively for non-server Windows editions try vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=D: /on=D: /maxsize=10% that will add shadow storage if it does not exist and thus is comparable to vssadmin add
      
  • wmic shadowstorage call create Volume=D:\ DiffVolume=D:\ MaxSpace=20
    
    • if this command returns ReturnValue = 10 (which is Unknown error) workaround follows
      
  • wmic shadowcopy call create Volume=D:\
    
    • creating shadow copy on disk without shadow storage will create one automatically
      
    • you can resize the shadow storage with vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=D: /on=D: /maxsize=10%
      

1.2 List shadow storages

• make sure the shadow storage is there and configured using one of:
  
  • vssadmin list shadowstorage
    
  • wmic shadowstorage list
    

2 Create shadow copy

2.1 Create shadow copy

• you want to use scheduled system protection feature, but for now just take a snapshot manually:
  
  • wmic shadowcopy call create Volume=D:\
    

2.2 List shadow copies

• verify the snapshot was created:
  
  • vssadmin list shadows /for=D:
    

3 Mount shadow copy

• since you are using Storage Spaces, you won't see snapshots in Previous versions tab in disk/file properties
  
• but the snapshots exists and can be mounted as a folder
  
• this shortage apply for both NTFS and ReFS Storage Spaces
  
• to mount a snapshot you will need shadow ID, shadow path and temporary folder
  

3.1 Get shadow copy ID

• vssadmin list shadows /for=D:
  
  • look for something like this Shadow Copy ID: {5cc29315-0379-415e-8496-69923618e3de}
    

3.2 Get shadow copy path

• wmic shadowcopy where "ID='{5cc29315-0379-415e-8496-69923618e3de}'" get DeviceObject
  
• or vssadmin list shadows /for=D:
  
  • look for Shadow Copy Volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy624
    

3.3 Mount shadow copy as folder

• mklink /j %tmp%\shadow \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy624\
  
  • note the extra \ at the end
    
  • the shadow copy is now available in %tmp%\shadow
    

 

Not enough space to create the volume shadow copy

Original Title: Hi

Hello, I saw the notification on the taskbar about getting windows 10 and i already reserved. but my question is that of backing up my files. i was using file history and creating a system image also. i used an external hard drive about 426 GB free and yet
when i start backup it fails and says there is not enough space to create the volume shadow copy. How can i fix this?

Thank you all.

 

Not enough space to create the volume shadow copy

Thank you but the above solution didnt quite work. I checked everything that you suggested i should but it failed. for some reason i dont know, it says your make sure that for all volumes to be back up, the
minimum required disk space for shadow copy is available. i also have a question on the upgrade. i dont have that much files i really need to back up but i am most concerned about microsoft office. After i upgrade to windows 10, does the os comes up with its
own office app or i should try another means because if it doesnt have one i loose office and i dont have the licence which means no office. so please help me?


Thank you.