Restore failure -cannot validate source -resource busy

After a successful creation of bootcamp volume with XP and MS Office I found 11GB too small a partition. I made an image of my OS and installed software, reformatted to a single volume, created a larger 32GB partition and attempted to restore the image to the Bootcamp volume. Same error each time "restore failure -cannot validate source -resource busy"
Stuck - any ideas?

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Hello guys,
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