On Seagate 1TB external drive for W8.1 system image backup

System image attempt using W8.1 on a Seagate 1Tb external drive stalls and advises "Insufficient space" etc. I've tried expanding the volume, decreasing the volume, renaming the drive. What I've read on this site requires using non-Microsoft
programs to solve a Microsoft issue. As this is a W8.1 issue (no problems with backups in W7) surely you Microsoft experts out there can come up with a simple solution for computer illerates lilke I am.

Hi Jamesg46,
What was the exact full error message?
Also,please check your System Reserved partition space to see if it has a large USN journa.
If so,please try to clear and disable the USN journal on the System Reserved partition:
You can refer to the following thread:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/error-code-0x80780119-not-enough-disk-space-to/865fbd74-06bc-4cc3-b054-d3d56b60eeff
Please perform the steps as Mancer provided to check the result.
Regards,
Kelvin Xu
TechNet Community Support

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Use Apple's Disk Utility in the Applications/Utilities folder to format the drive.
The programs on the drive given to you by the manufacturer is likely backup software (or malware) and essentially worthless, it will be wiped when you format the drive.
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