backup issues

Hi: In recent months using Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 laptops and 5 USB devices (3 are WD and 2 are Seagate) many, but not all of my folders are empty, meaning their subfolders are empty with all files missing. While I’m not absolutely certain, I think the empty phenomenon begins with the base...

Hey guys, I need serious help… and as a token of my appreciation I will send $50 directly into the person’s paypal account that can help me with my problem Just so you know upfront I am using Windows 8.1 Operating System Here is my problem –in my “C: Drive” I have a folder called “PROJECTS”…...

Greetings. I have my backup running automatically, doing a backup every 7 days. Yesterday I noticed the back up kept running, until it racked up 73 folders totaling 12.2GB. Whereas the last backup was 172MB in one folder. The 1-5-14 backup was: 94KB and 180,416KB in two folders. 12-22-13...

I had trouble booting from certain rescue disks. I have Win8.1 upgrade from Win8 now. Since then I have had several issues to work out. I thought my backups were working properly, but they are not. I looked at event viewer for File History. Come to find out I had a problem come up there. It...

My PC ignores all power settings and hibernates after approx 5 minutes of user inactivity. It is a Dell Vostro 200, which I had been running successfully on Windows 8 Pro. The problem appears to have been the result of upgrading to Windows 8.1. Regardless of the power scheme settings, the PC...

Hi all, i need some advice on ecovering a windows 7 key on a fried HD, the back up that was made to a disc hasn`t worked properly and basically does jack. i`ve connected the fried HD from the laptop to my pc using the reqiuired sata and power cable but my pc isn`t picking it up. is there a...

So last night we had a power outage which I am guessing might have something to do with my problem. Basically my computer and everything worked fine last night when power came back on, it still worked in the morning, and it still worked when I got back home after work. However, the internet...

Hi running windows 7 backup, and constantly failing, because it's trying to create an image of the Recovery drive, I don't need the recovery drive backed up, and windows backup does not give me an option to deselect. anyway to do this thru the registry? if their is no way to deselect the...

After much thought and deliberation I have done a factory image re-install and everything is working just fine however when I re-installed Office and got to run Outlook I could not find the emails and address book that presumably were saved in the back up that I did before the factory image...

I was running windows 7 with the system on one HD and all user profiles on another HD. However, my profiles disk crashed. I am using Acronis True Image 2011 and have successfully backed up and restored other partitions OK. However, despite Acronis successfully validating my backups it will...

Back Story: I had an issue in the past were my computer would restart overnight (I assume it crashed) and upon trying to start up the computer it would not load Windows 7(W7) most of the time. To get it to load I would have to shut the computer down and leave it off for a while and then it would...

I have a 3 year old Alienware desktop running Win 7 Professional (see my profile for more computer specs). I have never had any major problem including running weekly backups to a second internal hard drive using Windows backup. About 3 weeks ago the backup failed and produced the mentioned...

I experiencing Event id 10016 for several different scenarios and having problems isolating the cause due to Running Windows 7 Home Premium. I use this Laptop only while traveling and am about to leave on a trip. I would like to determine the settings I should see for the following before I...

A few weeks ago I decided to do a clean install of a new (to me, anyway) version of Adobe Photoshop (I actually had two prior versions of Photoshop on my hard drive, so starting with the oldest one, I used "Revo Uninstaller" to remove them) I've used "Revo" for years because after it uses a...

I have a Dell Inspiron 1721 connected to a new Seagate external hard drive. The Inspiron has 280GB of which 85 are free. The Seagate has 465GB with 445GB free. Several times I have attempted to back up the Inspiron and so far have been unsuccessful. The message I get is: Your last backup...

Although originally working, now W7 backup will not work. I am running 32bit Ultimate I have emptied the backup drive,started a whole new backup - the back up starts ... runs to about 80% of progress bar ... then fails with message Backup failed to complete. The error code is ox81000015...

I have been researching this problem for days, and Windows 7 seems to be a common factor, hence this post. I have a Maxtor Central Axis network drive that I have used for a number of years for backups. I reorganised it a while back and recently decided to do some housekeeping and empty the old...

Have an issues that's driving me crazy. I managed to do a drive image that also included my storage drive on an internal 1TB SATA drive. This, however, was the only one I was able to do. When I tried to run backup a second time, it would start, but then completely hang with only the...

I created first backup on an External Drive, which required twice the space as on C: drive, which I was backing up!.. There is a "WindowsImagebackup" folder plus a "Data file" named ""my name-PV", both of about equal size? Why two files? plus the issue of taking up twice the space of the...

OK, I know this thread is old, but I am having an issue with my pc locking up when I try and transfer files. The problem started when I had the bright idea of trying server 2008 with hyper v and running a vm on hyper v should have stuck with VMware. Any way the vm besides having no sound card...