Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Imaging Windows 7

5 May 2010

      Wow George,

I'll enable Compression on the drive.  Not sure if I want to wack the
partition just yet.  Hate compression as it decreases performance, and isnt'
necessary IMHO on a 2TB drive lol

Thanks for the suggestion though will try and report back.  :D)

Barry

-----Original Message-----
From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of George
Bell
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 12:22 PM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Imaging Windows 7

Hi Barry,

A known problem.  Here's a recent clip from a tech support list

"I had the same problem in WIndows 7 Professioonal 64 bit "A Volume
Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Please check "VSS" and "SPP"
logs for more information" when trying to make a system image. And
also recieved this message the first time "The writer experienced a
non-transient error. If the backup procss is retried, the error is
likely to reoccur (0x900423F4)." I am trying to back up to a freecom
tough drive (120GB external 2.5")

"So I tried two reformats of my drive - no joy - then I went to disk
manager and deleted the entire drive/partition and made a new one. I
enabled compression on the drive (little tick box) and now creating
the system image works fine"

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
Barry Toner
Sent: 05 May 2010 12:14
To: 'Blind sysadmins list'
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Imaging Windows 7

Andrew,

I keep getting this when I try and run the image backup.

2 Create a system image
The backup failed.
A Volume Shadow Copy Service operation failed. Please check "VSS" and
"SPP"
application event 
logs for more information. (0x807800A1)
Additional Information:
A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected
error.
Check the 
Application event log for more information. (0x80042302)
Close"

The event logs arent' reading for some reason with Win Eyes.  I've
tried
running them as an admin...

Poking around forums everythings talking about 2008 not Win 7.

Barry.

-----Original Message-----
From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
Andrew
Hodgson
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 10:49 AM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Imaging Windows 7

Hi,

Image backups in Win7 actually work ok, I used to back up to a NAS
device.
Since getting a Windows Home Server box I am using the image backups
on
that, they take a lot less time to create, and can be restored fairly
easily.  Only issue is the restore interface uses the WinPE.

Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
Barry
Toner
Sent: 05 May 2010 10:08
To: 'Blind sysadmins list'
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Imaging Windows 7

Folks,

What are you either in work or at home imaging your win 7 boxes with?

That you can restore, I know I know, that's always the killer, without
sighted help.

I was using True Image for XP back when, but have found it very crashy
under
Win 7 and accessibility appears to be broke in it's latest version.

The Windows 7 backup tool, despite having an Imager scares me.  I'm
not sure
if it's a true sys image, and also it's throwing all sorts of annoying
errors up here when I point it to a backup drive I have in a USB hub.

So I'm looking a backup tool that will do Images, and if I have access
to
the OS will let me log in, and run the backup, it reboots and comes
back up
after a period with a re-imaged screen.  True Image would do this and
do it
very nicely.

Thanks,
Barry.

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