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Cannot make an ASR backup of Windows

Symptoms

You may experience these symptoms:

Creating a Windows Automated System Recovery (ASR) backup fails
You receive the error:

The files for the recovery diskette could not be created. The operation was aborted.

Resolution

This issue is typically resolved by following one of these two Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

Note: These links were valid as of July 7, 2009. If you find these links to be broken, provide feedback on the article and VMware will update them as necessary.

If the Microsoft articles do not resolve the issue or do not apply to your situation, ensure that the partition alignment is correct as per recommendations in Recommendations for Aligning VMFS Partitions.

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