OK I spoke to soon. It didn't finish...
It just got further than previously and I thought it was fixed. So this was the error log. Very odd as it talks about steam and C: drive. But I was copying D: to F: Nothing to do with C:???
Help please.
(Gathering writer metadata...)
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)
Initialize writer metadata ...
- Get exclude files
- Enumerate components
- Get file list descriptors
- Get database descriptors
- Get log descriptors
- Get exclude files
- Enumerate components
- Get file list descriptors
- Get database descriptors
- Get log descriptors
- Get exclude files
- Enumerate components
- Get file list descriptors
- Get database descriptors
- Get log descriptors
- Get exclude files
- Enumerate components
- Get exclude files
- Enumerate components
- Get file list descriptors
- Get database descriptors
- Get log descriptors
- Get exclude files
- Enumerate components
- Get file list descriptors
- Get database descriptors
- Get log descriptors
- Get exclude files
- Enumerate components
- Get file list descriptors
- Get database descriptors
- Get log descriptors
- Get exclude files
- Enumerate components
Discover directly excluded components ...
- Excluding writer '' since it has no selected components for restore.
- Excluding writer '' since it has no selected components for restore.
- Excluding writer 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer' since it has no selected components for restore.
- Excluding writer 'MSSearch Service Writer' since it has no selected components for restore.
Discover components that reside outside the shadow set ...
- Component '\TasksStore' from writer 'Task Scheduler Writer' is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
- Component '\WriterMetadataStore' from writer 'VSS Metadata Store Writer' is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
- Component '\PerformanceCounters' from writer 'Performance Counters Writer' is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
- Component '\Registry' from writer 'Registry Writer' is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
- Component '\COM+ REGDB' from writer 'COM+ REGDB Writer' is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
- Component '\WMI' from writer 'WMI Writer' is excluded from backup (it requires C:\ in the shadow set)
Discover all excluded components ...
Discover excluded writers ...
- The writer 'Task Scheduler Writer' is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
- The writer 'VSS Metadata Store Writer' is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
- The writer 'Performance Counters Writer' is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
- The writer 'Registry Writer' is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
- The writer 'COM+ REGDB Writer' is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
- The writer 'WMI Writer' is now entirely excluded from the backup:
(it does not contain any components that can be potentially included in the backup)
Discover explicitly included components ...
Verifying explicitly specified writers/components ...
Select explicitly included components ...
Creating shadow set {acf86da0-11fb-4c4b-90f7-c1f75e6433df} ...
- Adding volume \\?\Volume{00074f2e-0000-0000-0000-100000000000}\ [D:\] to the shadow set...
Preparing for backup ...
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)
Creating the shadow (DoSnapshotSet) ...
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)
Shadow copy set succesfully created.
Saving the backup components document ...
List of created shadow copies:
Querying all shadow copies with the SnapshotSetID {acf86da0-11fb-4c4b-90f7-c1f75e6433df} ...
* SNAPSHOT ID = {0f165ee5-b1bc-40f6-9d78-0bf95b6df3a1} ...
- Shadow copy Set: {acf86da0-11fb-4c4b-90f7-c1f75e6433df}
- Original count of shadow copies = 1
- Original Volume name: \\?\Volume{00074f2e-0000-0000-0000-100000000000}\ [D:\]
- Creation Time: 29/08/2017 23:30:44
- Shadow copy device name: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy13
- Originating machine: DESKTOP-KTJ27GS
- Service machine: DESKTOP-KTJ27GS
- Not Exposed
- Provider id: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}
- Attributes: Auto_Release Differential
Windows Events
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Date 30/08/2017 03:08:33
Type Error
Event 33
Source SideBySide
Activation context generation failed for "c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\the dig\testapp.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.DebugCRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.762" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.