Backing up in vista

Hi all
I'm trying to do a complete backup through visa onto an external hard drive.
I've been using the back up wizard but about a third of the way into creating
the shadow copy i receive an error saying that the shadow copy has timed out
any help would be really appreicated
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ryanom

Do you have the external drive formatted as NTFS? If you don't, you will not
likely get a full system backup - as fat32 will limit you to a 4 gig file
size. Vista backups are usually larger than 4 gig.

Do you have sufficient free space on the external hard drive?

If the drive is a USB drive, do you have the drive properties set for
"optimize for speed"?

Have you run chkdsk on the external drive to test its competency?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)


"ryanom" <ryanom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2E6FF521-E273-4BB0-A14E-AD9E605CF7CE@microsoft.com...
> Hi all
> I'm trying to do a complete backup through visa onto an external hard
> drive.
> I've been using the back up wizard but about a third of the way into
> creating
> the shadow copy i receive an error saying that the shadow copy has timed
> out
> any help would be really appreicated
> --
> ryanom

Thansk Richard, I've checked the external drive and it had 149.5gb spare
which is more than what i have on my hard drive and i've checked the format
of the external drive and iti is NTFS, anything else come to mind ???
cheers

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ryanom


"Richard Urban" wrote:

> Do you have the external drive formatted as NTFS? If you don't, you will not
> likely get a full system backup - as fat32 will limit you to a 4 gig file
> size. Vista backups are usually larger than 4 gig.
>
> Do you have sufficient free space on the external hard drive?
>
> If the drive is a USB drive, do you have the drive properties set for
> "optimize for speed"?
>
> Have you run chkdsk on the external drive to test its competency?
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
>
> "ryanom" <ryanom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2E6FF521-E273-4BB0-A14E-AD9E605CF7CE@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all
> > I'm trying to do a complete backup through visa onto an external hard
> > drive.
> > I've been using the back up wizard but about a third of the way into
> > creating
> > the shadow copy i receive an error saying that the shadow copy has timed
> > out
> > any help would be really appreicated
> > --
> > ryanom
>
>

chkdsk results are ???????? OK?

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)


"ryanom" <ryanom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E0B7954A-6746-4E7D-B90E-2A7CC73E501B@microsoft.com...
> Thansk Richard, I've checked the external drive and it had 149.5gb spare
> which is more than what i have on my hard drive and i've checked the
> format
> of the external drive and iti is NTFS, anything else come to mind ???
> cheers
>
> --
> ryanom
>
>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
>
>> Do you have the external drive formatted as NTFS? If you don't, you will
>> not
>> likely get a full system backup - as fat32 will limit you to a 4 gig file
>> size. Vista backups are usually larger than 4 gig.
>>
>> Do you have sufficient free space on the external hard drive?
>>
>> If the drive is a USB drive, do you have the drive properties set for
>> "optimize for speed"?
>>
>> Have you run chkdsk on the external drive to test its competency?
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>>
>>
>> "ryanom" <ryanom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2E6FF521-E273-4BB0-A14E-AD9E605CF7CE@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi all
>> > I'm trying to do a complete backup through visa onto an external hard
>> > drive.
>> > I've been using the back up wizard but about a third of the way into
>> > creating
>> > the shadow copy i receive an error saying that the shadow copy has
>> > timed
>> > out
>> > any help would be really appreicated
>> > --
>> > ryanom
>>
>>

Also, install these if you don't have them installed already.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932246 Vista compatibility update

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&DisplayLang=en
Vista reliability update

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&DisplayLang=en
Vista performance update


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)


"ryanom" <ryanom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E0B7954A-6746-4E7D-B90E-2A7CC73E501B@microsoft.com...
> Thansk Richard, I've checked the external drive and it had 149.5gb spare
> which is more than what i have on my hard drive and i've checked the
> format
> of the external drive and iti is NTFS, anything else come to mind ???
> cheers
>
> --
> ryanom
>
>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
>
>> Do you have the external drive formatted as NTFS? If you don't, you will
>> not
>> likely get a full system backup - as fat32 will limit you to a 4 gig file
>> size. Vista backups are usually larger than 4 gig.
>>
>> Do you have sufficient free space on the external hard drive?
>>
>> If the drive is a USB drive, do you have the drive properties set for
>> "optimize for speed"?
>>
>> Have you run chkdsk on the external drive to test its competency?
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>>
>>
>> "ryanom" <ryanom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2E6FF521-E273-4BB0-A14E-AD9E605CF7CE@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi all
>> > I'm trying to do a complete backup through visa onto an external hard
>> > drive.
>> > I've been using the back up wizard but about a third of the way into
>> > creating
>> > the shadow copy i receive an error saying that the shadow copy has
>> > timed
>> > out
>> > any help would be really appreicated
>> > --
>> > ryanom
>>
>>