I really wasn't in love with either of those ideas. I only found a couple of suggestions to either move the boot functions to the c:\ drive and get rid of the system partition altogether or to repartition to shrink the c:\ drive and increase the system partition. I relentlessly 'googled' everything I could think of to try and find a solution. So I took a look at the files located there and I couldn't figure out where all the space was going since there appeared to be only 15gb worth of actual files.
I assigned a drive letter to the system reserved partition so I could see what was going on and sure enough, I did not have that much space free. Apparently you need something like 40gb free on the system reserved partition to create a system state backup. There was plenty of free space however on both the drive I was backing up and my backup location.Īfter researching a bit I learned that this was being caused by the system reserved partition not having enough free space.
The message was that there wasn't enough disk space to create the volume shadow copy on the storage location. I first noticed the problem because my backups were failing on one of my 2008 servers all of the sudden. I know this is a very old post but I have been having a similar problem and eventually resolved it, so I thought I would share.
