Backing up in vista

[Guest]

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

 

[Richard Urban]

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
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[Guest]

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

 

[Richard Urban]

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

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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[Richard Urban]

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/...9d-c33d-48db-a7e3-62eef7c1f7c2&DisplayLang=en
Vista reliability update

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...b9-d832-425b-b42c-d3eb2071bbec&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)