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A shadow copy could not be created | Insufficient storage available to create | 0x81000019

These are part of a message received when trying to run a Windows 7 backup with a system image. I myself have encountered the problem but luckily after some searching have found a solution that worked for me.

Unfortunately I don't have a screenshot of the message you may have received but I do have a text version of it:

[Window Title]
Windows Backup: Troubleshooting Options

[Main Instruction]
Check your backup

[Content]
A shadow copy could not be created. Please check "VSS" and "SPP" application event logs for more information.
Details: Insufficient storage available to create either the shadow copy storage file or other shadow copy data.

[^] Hide Details  [Try to run backup again] [Change backup settings] [Cancel]

[Expanded Information]
Backup time: 10/25/2009 3:23 PM
Backup location: Terra-Stor (M:)
Error code: 0x81000019

So the insufficient space this error is referring to isn't the space on your hard drives that you're trying to copy the backup too, it's the space on that small 100MB boot partition that was created during Windows 7 installation. You can look at the partition yourself by:

1. Start
2. Right click My Computer
3. Manage
4. Storage > Disk Management
5. Right click the 100MB
6. Properties

If you have less than 40% of Free Space then that's the insufficient storage available error. See that drive is actually used to create your system image and therefore cannot drop below 40%. According to a Microsoft employee there is a problem with Windows 7 which causes it to use up more than 60% of that 100MB boot drive.

The trick around this problem is:

If the System reserved partition cannot be extended using Disk Management because of lack of contigous space adjacent to it, creating a new system volume is the workaround. Here are the steps to move the system volume to any other volume:

1. Choose where you want to have your system volume. Few things you need to keep in mind:
   1. System volume can only be created on a primary partition of MBR disk.
   2. If system volume & boot volume are together, then BitLocker feature cannot be used to encrypt volumes on your machine.
2. Suggest creating a new volume (say F:) on the same disk that contains the boot partition of size of about 490 MB (be careful to keep it less than 500 MB)
   1. My Edit: To do this you must be in the manage properties as per the steps above.
   2. Right click your C:\
   3. Shrink Volume
   4. Enter 490MB
   5. Right click the new drive
   6. New Simple Volume
3. Assuming Windows 7 is installed on C: on your machine. From an elevated command-prompt run: bcdboot.exe C:\Windows /s F:.
4. From elevated command-prompt run: DISKPART
5. From the disk part command-prompt:
   1. DISKPART> select volume F
   2. DISKPART> active

Now you can reboot your machine and F: will become the system volume. You can undo this by repeating the same steps using the original system volume (you have to assign drive-letter to it) to revert to your previous configuration.

via social.technet.microsoft.com

Once this is done you can head back into Manage:

1. Right click the new 490MB drive
2. Change Drive Letter and Paths
3. Remove

Removing the letter will also remove the drive from appearing in My Computer. Now you should be done. The drive should now be 490MB which is plenty for Windows 7 backup to create a system image. Go to Backup & Restore and run through the wizard again and this time hopefully it should work.

Thanks

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MacBook Pro keyboard / trackpad fix

Lewis Barclay saved my @rse today. The keyboard and trackpad on my Macbook Pro recently just quit, and I'm flying to India- Pune in fact in a few hours, for the week. Problems seem to have a sense of timing, don't they? The Power button still worked and is part of the same assembly, so I was confused and messed around with software updates and 'hacks' to no avail. The 'fix'? Press down on this little flimsy cable (it's usually a little bit bubbled up and outwards) that I've circled in the shot below (which is an iPhone app - goSnap creation.)

You can access this little bubbled out cable just by removing your battery. As it happens I'd already disassembled the Macbook Pro by the time I found Lewis' short and handy little article (which is here). Here's my summary;

1. flip the battery out (after shutdown)
2. make a little ball of sticky tape, or something similar (not too big!)
3. attach it to the little bubbled cable you see here
4. gently reinsert your battery - don't force it. if it won't go, downsize the ball
5. Enjoy your now working keyboard assembly, until you can get it replaced

Thanks Lewis! Hope this helps others too.

Sent from my iPhone

STEVE REICH AND BANG ON A CAN, ccb, Lisboa

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Desactivar el Molesto "beep" del sistema [Ubuntu]

No entiendo por que en un sistema Operativo tan moderno y configurable como lo es Ubuntu se les ocurrió poner el pitido de la bocina interna del CPU para alertar cuando alcanzaste el el máximo de caracteres en una caja de texto, y no sólo eso, sino que no trae una opción en su GUI para desactivarla. Wow ! que molesto. En fin, entre varias soluciones en la red, ésta fue la que me funcionó a mi. En terminal : 

sudo modprobe -r pcspkr

No más beeeeep !