creating system image

Hello

I recently got a hp envy Win8 m6-1125dx.

After a few days, I wanted to make a system image backup on an external hard drive with 700 GB of free space.

Start the process, a prompt told me that the reverse would require about 60 GB of free space.

No problem, I thought. The process lasted for about 6-7 minutes, and a prompt in the end told me that the backup has been created successfully.

But, when I checked the "WindowsImageBackup" file that was created on my hard drive, instead of finding it about 60 GB (as I was told at the beginning of the backup process), the file (5 files) only 4,00 KB...

I did more time with the same results...

Something I am doing wrong?

Thank you very much.

Thanks for getting back to me. Looks like it is not uncommon that the file appears empty.

Users on Microsoft Answers post here gives a suggestion to open the system restore to see if you can confirm whether or not the file will work. He suggests that it may be possible to view the file before you restore all the files.

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