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I want to thank everyone who contributed to helping me solve my Macrium problem.
Everything is working now, and I don’t know exactly what fixed the problem.
Perhaps the following long description of what I did will help someone else.
Yesterday afternoon I discovered that I could not create a restore point due to a VSS problem, and throughout the day while trying to solve my Macrium problem, I had continually run into hints that VSS was the problem with Macrium. I had run Macrium’s ‘Fix VSS Problems’ tool several times, but that didn’t fix the problem.
I shutdown and restarted the computer several times, hoping that the computer might fix itself.
I downloaded and installed an older version of Macrium Reflect, version 6, but the problem persisted.
Throughout the day I ran DISM, SFC, and CHKDSK several times against both the internal and external drives, but the Macrium problem persisted. I formatted the external drive, but the problem persisted. I noticed that 2 of the VSS writers had a ‘Failed’ notice, but I didn’t know how to fix that problem.
Early in the evening, after restarting the computer for the umpteenth time, I was able to create a restore point; so I ran Macrium for the umpteenth time … and it worked‼ I have no idea what fixed the problem, but I keep looking back at the fact that the Macrium problem began the same day that Macrium downloaded an update.
I’m still running version 6 of Macrium Reflect even though the current version 7 might now work, but version 6 works, it does what I want it to do, and I’m not going to mess with it.
Richard
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