How do I control how much disk space my Windows Backup takes up? I have a 1TB external disk for backups and other files. My computer's HDD only has about 250GB capacity. I don't know why my backups file got so bloated. What should I do?
I see that I can delete the older backup file: 22-Oct...
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Hi,
I tried backing up last night. Took 3 hours but I digress.
When it finished it stated it didn\t complete properly. BUT there are two files on my external drive. One named after my computer but says it is empty (treated as a folder). The other file says MediaID.bin 0 kb.
When I check...
I've run out of space on my 320G "C" drive, and would like to add a second identical hard drive in a RAID 0 array on my Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 motherboard to improve both speed and space. This, of course, means wiping out the existing OS, and I don't want to do a fresh install if I can avoid it.
I...
I have just upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista Business.
It had to be a clean install so I backed up Vista and my files to an external hard drive using Windows Backup.
The only emails (.dbx) available now in windows.old were from a previous system, Outlook Express, which I have successfully...
Windows Backup doesn't detect my existing VHD file on the local hard drive
I used Windows Backup to create a backup of my C: partition. Foolishly, I put it on drive D.
Later, I realized that I shouldn't store it on the same physical disk with the C: partition, so I moved it to partition F:
Last...
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I recently installed Windows 7 home premium 64-bits. I upgraded it from a Windows vista business 32-bits. That was not trivial, but it worked fine. Problems came when a driver "classpnp.sys" made the system halt. Repair programs did not work until I copied another file over the driver and a...
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in the past I have used Acronis TrueImage software to create full system images of my system. that way if somethign goes really wrong i can just restore the entire system from the acronis image and be good to go.
It looks liek windows backup has a way of doing a full system backup/restore and...
Is there any way to restore a system image to a new SMALLER drive than that from which it was created, even though the image size is much smaller than the new drive? According to the help file it's not possible. Is there a work around?
Maybe I could copy the files across then do a system...
Is there a way I can have the "Create system image" done daily. say as a scheduled task? I feel much more comfortable with that instead of the regular backup.
I get this message everytime I back up:
The backup was not successful. The error is: Windows Backup failed while trying to read from the shadow copy on one of the volumes being backed up. Please check in the event logs for any relevant errors. (0x81000037).
It's the first time I'm doing a...
Hi all using build 7000 on following specs.
C2D 2GHZ
2GB ram
P945 chipset.
I have 3 hard drives (sata II)
Y=350GB used
Z=550GB used
backing up to a 1.5TB drive.
I used windows backup and after 12 hours it was only at 51%???
I have tested copying files btw the drives and I...
This is a long message, beware.
I recently installed build 7000 on my machine, but I've been having trouble with the built-in backup software.
The short version of the issue is that backups of C:\ no longer work.
The long version:
Windows successfully creates a shadow copy, but then...