In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , G. Ross
writes:
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Got it hooked up and it works fine for 30% then stops with error
Read Failed. Said was blocked from reading files in root. I
disabled firewall, had already turned off any running programs.
Turned off windows defender and windows firewall and antivirus. It
still stalls
at 30%.
What else should I do?

G.Ross

See Paul's reply for if it is failing to read files because there's
something wrong with the disc. If it's just failing because it's
trying to read files that Windows is using, then don't try running it
from within Windows anyway, but boot the system into Macrium from the
Macrium CD, which you have made, haven't you ... (-:

By using VSS shadow copy, it should be able to copy
anything on the hard drive. That's the default method.

[rest of good stuff - VSS, PSS - snipped.]

I tend to forget about VSS etc., because I always make my Macrium images
having booted from the Macrium CD, in which situation VSS _isn't_ of
course the default method. I also use this - and apologies to readers
who are fed up of me doing this - as a reminder to people to make the
damn CD! (In the past - though not so much recently - I got fed up of
seeing, for example, comparisons of all sorts of backup/image/whatever
softwares, where little or no mention was _made_ of the necessity to
make the software's bootable CD. Whatever the software in question -
Macrium, Acronis, EaseUS, others, even Microsoft's own built-in.)

Of course, if G. Ross is _only_ cloning, rather than making an image,
s/he could indeed proceed without ever using a Macrium boot CD.
Personally, I'd use the occasion where I was about to clone - whether
due to a failing drive, or just because I was fitting a bigger drive (or
an SSD) - as an opportunity to make an image anyway, but that does
(almost) imply you have a third drive on which to put the image, which
some people won't have.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"I'm a self-made man, thereby demonstrating once again the perils of unskilled
labor..." - Harlan Ellison