After backup disc #17, Vista tells me backup "failed"

[Guest]

I just spent a day and a half creating several back-up disks so that I can
reinstall my OS. After creating disc # 17 (almost 18 hours after I created
disc #1), I did what I did for the previous 17 discs and inserted a new disc
#18. I then received this error:

"The backup did not complete successfully. An error occurred. The following
information might help you sove the problem: The wrong diskette is in the
drive. Insert %2 (Volume serial number: %3) into drive %1. (0x80070022)."

Again, I had already created 17 BACKUP DISKS and if I have to start over,
well some blood will be spilled tonight (and it will be my laptop's and
Vista's...)

Please tell me all is not lost. I had previously installed Vista on a
less-than-year-old laptop which apparently did not have enough juice to run
this OS successfully (or efficiently or even slowly) and I'd had enough of
waiting 30 seconds for a photo to open or 5 minutes for the the thing to boot
up. So I wanted to install a fresh copy of XP and get out of this he**. So I
did what I was supposed to do and let Vista do the backup. I have no idea
where to go from here. Any advice would be most appreciated.

--Annik

 

[Michael Palumbo]

I just spent a day and a half creating several back-up disks so that I can
reinstall my OS. After creating disc # 17 (almost 18 hours after I created
disc #1), I did what I did for the previous 17 discs and inserted a new
disc
#18. I then received this error:

"The backup did not complete successfully. An error occurred. The
following
information might help you sove the problem: The wrong diskette is in the
drive. Insert %2 (Volume serial number: %3) into drive %1. (0x80070022)."

Again, I had already created 17 BACKUP DISKS and if I have to start over,
well some blood will be spilled tonight (and it will be my laptop's and
Vista's...)

Please tell me all is not lost. I had previously installed Vista on a
less-than-year-old laptop which apparently did not have enough juice to
run
this OS successfully (or efficiently or even slowly) and I'd had enough of
waiting 30 seconds for a photo to open or 5 minutes for the the thing to
boot
up. So I wanted to install a fresh copy of XP and get out of this he**. So
I
did what I was supposed to do and let Vista do the backup. I have no idea
where to go from here. Any advice would be most appreciated.

--Annik

What kind of disk(s) were you backing up to?

A little more information about what hardware/software you're using, what
type of backup you're attempting and what disks you're using would be most
helpful.

Mic

 

[Thai Berry \(U.S.\)]

The way you are trying to do this is very painstaking....

you should use an image program like acronis true image and backup on a
network or external drive or second parition.

Once you do that and the disk images are created, you can then copy those to
dvd's or cdroms.
In acronis you will se an option to split the image into parts.. I suggest
you use the 700mb setting even if you are going
to write these parts on dvds.. you can burn 6 or 7 of these 700mb parts on
each dvd

 

[Guest]

Vista Home premium. Backing up to CDs on the Cd drive.

 

[Guest]

I do have a 4 GB USB Flash drive -- will that do? If it's 6 or 7 700 MB
parts, I'm guessing it will. I think it's pretty shameful that Vista Support
doesn't say this to begin with. It makes it seem like it's all so easy and
carefree.

However, thank YOU for your suggestion.

Annik

 

[Steve Thackery]

I concur with the other posters.

The only realistic way to do this is to buy yourself an external USB hard
drive and back up to that.

CDs are just TOO small. Indeed, DVDs are, too.

SteveT

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

If you are going to use optical media, use DVDs. I doubt very much that a
4gb flash drive has enough space to back up an entire Vista Installation.

If you want to do a clean install of your system, you should use the CD
burning program to save all important files, and then just start over,
re-instating your files afterwards.

 

[Gary G. Little]

Personally, I think you are lucky you got to #17 before your CD burner took
a header ... and blaiming Vista is roughly like blaming Craftsman Tools
because you hit your thumb with the hammer. Be thankful it failed during the
creation of the CD ... imagine your frustation if all 17 or 18 CD's said
they copied and verified to have #11 fail to read AFTER you've wiped your OS
to install XP. What should Vista Support say? Backing up to over 17 CD's
MIGHT be possible, and that you MIGHT be able to restore all 17+ CD's?
You've got over 17 chances for a singe CD to fail ... twice. I've thrown
many a brand new just-busted-the-cellaphane-off-the-jewel-case because the
burn attempt failed. I've done the same thing to floppies and DVD's, and yes
I've even scrapped a few HDD.

Obviously the backup is important to you ... I applaud you for the 18 hours
you spent attempting, but your best backup is to an external HDD. Even to
use DVD's you'll have 2 to 4 discs, any one of which could throw a read or
write error for any number of reasons that have nothing to do with the OS.

External HDD's are your friend. They are relatively cheap and you can unplug
them and secure them when you don't need them.