Complete PC Backup Failure

[Guest]

I've been running Vista Ultimate since the end of January 2007. I've lost two
C: drives so far, so I am now religious about backup.

I have been successfully running a Complete PC Backup twice a weekl to
another hard drive for 3 months. After Windows Vista updates on 06/13/2007,
Complete PC Backup fails with the message:

"The semaphore timeout period has expired. (0x80070079)."

The red bar indicating failure is very disturbing. I much prefer the happy
green bar, which deludes me into thinking that I have a chance to get back to
a point in time when Vista or the NVIDA drivers decide to render my C:
unbootable again.

 

[Guest]

I am having the exact same problem. Did you ever find a solution?

Thanks,
-Brad

 

[John Stubbings]

I am having the exact same problem. Did you ever find a solution?

Thanks,
-Brad

Are you backing up to a USB drive? If so I found my USB headphones made the
drive go missing after about 10 minutes resulting in failure. Now I remove
all USB items before backup and it works.

 

[Guest]

I haven't tried backing up to USB yet. I have three drives in the PC - 2
SATA and 1 IDE. Vista is on SATA. I've tried backing up to both the other
SATA and the IDE drive, and both display the same error.

From what I've read online, a semaphore timeout error usually means you have
faulty hardware (or a bad connection), however, all other functions on my PC
operate normally.

Could this be a pagefile and/or ReadyBoost problem?

Thanks,
-Brad

Motherboard is an ASUS A8N-VM
AMD Athlon 64 3700
2 GB Corsair DDR RAM
2 Seagate 160GB SATA II drives
1 Maxtor 500GB IDE
All Vista software and hardware updates including newly realeased
"performance" and "reliability" update packages.

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[Guest]

I am having problems completing any backup on my PC because of this problem.
I am backing up to a USB ext HDD and it seems to go on forever until after
around 45 mins and just stops with the semaphore error. Everything
originally started out OK but as my data has grown so has the problem. When
the problem first appeared after my 3rd backup I managed to get it working by
retrying it again 3 times, but now nothing seems to work even if I choose to
not back up everything to make the image smaller. I seem to have no issues
with backing up my laptop using exactly the same settings. Both my machines
have wireless keyboards plugged into USB ports. Other USB ports should not
be causing an issue and if they are Microsoft need to do something about it!

 

[Guest]

Update:

I took the plunge and removed the USB wireless keyboard and mouse (Microsoft
laser 6000 set) and the backup worked first time!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help. However, I tried uplugging every USB device I have to
no avail...

Many more problems too. I'm strongly considering going back to XP.