I opened the event viewer and, as I suspected, it's all Greek to me.
Backing Up:
1. Connect my Seagate to a USB port, open Win 7x64 Control Panel and click on Backup and Restore. Backup size is 61.88GB, HD free space is 232.19GB. Items to backup are: Files in libraries and personal folders for all users and system image.
2. In the Control Panel/Edit Dell power plan settings, changed power-on options for Dim Display, turn Off Display and Put the computer to sleep to Never.
3. In Control Panel/Backup and Restore click on Backup Now.
4. The backup is now in progress - real time. Time is 0946 EDT. 0952 EDT - backup 63% complete. Creating a system image of Paul XPS C:.
WELL, whadda ya know! 0956 EDT and the backup completed successfully. I...