backing up to a hard drive

[Guest]

I recently purchased a Que ME 80 Gb hard drive. My laptop running XP has 40Gb capacity. I installed the microsoft back up software and proceeded to begin backing up. First I tried to save everything on my computer to the hard drive (which was recognized, by the way) but kept getting error messages. So then I tried transfering specific files. All worked well, but then I got a message that the full capacity of the hard drive had been reached - but only 4 Gb had been transfered. Here's the details of the problem:

"Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "Backup.bkf created 12/14/2003 at 10:40 AM"

Backup (via shadow copy) of "C: "
Backup set #1 on media #1
Backup description: "Set created 12/14/2003 at 10:40 AM"
Media name: "Backup.bkf created 12/14/2003 at 10:40 AM"

Backup Type: Normal

Backup started on 12/14/2003 at 10:41 AM.
End of Media encountered while backing up to non-removable media.
The operation was ended.
Backup completed on 12/14/2003 at 11:41 AM.
Directories: 2546
Files: 24004
Bytes: 4,274,117,715
Time: 18 minutes and 14 seconds

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The operation did not successfully complete."

I had not previously done any formatting of the new hard drive, as was suggested in the Quemanual for Windows 2000. Might that be the problem? Or what else?

I contacted the QPS people (hard drive manufacturers), who said that I needed to use a different back-up program, eg, Retrospect. Surely, the windows software should work?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I think there might be a size limit for the backup file. I am not sure if
the hard drive partition format (FAT32 or NTFS) is the base of the problem.

Y.

I recently purchased a Que ME 80 Gb hard drive. My laptop running XP has

40Gb capacity. I installed the microsoft back up software and proceeded to
begin backing up. First I tried to save everything on my computer to the
hard drive (which was recognized, by the way) but kept getting error
messages. So then I tried transfering specific files. All worked well, but
then I got a message that the full capacity of the hard drive had been
reached - but only 4 Gb had been transfered. Here's the details of the
problem:

"Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "Backup.bkf created 12/14/2003 at 10:40 AM"

Backup (via shadow copy) of "C: "
Backup set #1 on media #1
Backup description: "Set created 12/14/2003 at 10:40 AM"
Media name: "Backup.bkf created 12/14/2003 at 10:40 AM"

Backup Type: Normal

Backup started on 12/14/2003 at 10:41 AM.
End of Media encountered while backing up to non-removable media.
The operation was ended.
Backup completed on 12/14/2003 at 11:41 AM.
Directories: 2546
Files: 24004
Bytes: 4,274,117,715
Time: 18 minutes and 14 seconds

----------------------

The operation did not successfully complete."

I had not previously done any formatting of the new hard drive, as was

suggested in the Quemanual for Windows 2000. Might that be the problem? Or
what else?

I contacted the QPS people (hard drive manufacturers), who said that I

needed to use a different back-up program, eg, Retrospect. Surely, the
windows software should work?

 

[Guest]

Why would not of formatted the drive first ?? The program
writes to the drive with no problems, of course the data
is all over the place, then it tries to write to the file
allocation table , but there is none. Dah

-----Original Message-----
I recently purchased a Que ME 80 Gb hard drive. My

laptop running XP has 40Gb capacity. I installed the
microsoft back up software and proceeded to begin backing
up. First I tried to save everything on my computer to
the hard drive (which was recognized, by the way) but
kept getting error messages. So then I tried transfering
specific files. All worked well, but then I got a message
that the full capacity of the hard drive had been
reached - but only 4 Gb had been transfered. Here's the
details of the problem:

"Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "Backup.bkf created 12/14/2003 at 10:40 AM"

Backup (via shadow copy) of "C: "
Backup set #1 on media #1
Backup description: "Set created 12/14/2003 at 10:40 AM"
Media name: "Backup.bkf created 12/14/2003 at 10:40 AM"

Backup Type: Normal

Backup started on 12/14/2003 at 10:41 AM.
End of Media encountered while backing up to non- removable media.
The operation was ended.
Backup completed on 12/14/2003 at 11:41 AM.
Directories: 2546
Files: 24004
Bytes: 4,274,117,715
Time: 18 minutes and 14 seconds

----------------------

The operation did not successfully complete."

I had not previously done any formatting of the new hard

drive, as was suggested in the Quemanual for Windows
2000. Might that be the problem? Or what else?

I contacted the QPS people (hard drive manufacturers),

who said that I needed to use a different back-up
program, eg, Retrospect. Surely, the windows software
should work?

 

[bifocals]

1. use computer management and under storage look at drives if 80gb is
fat32 you are limited to 4gb file size. ntfs has no limit. right click on
drive and select format...select ntfs and it will reformat drive. will also
delete any data on drive. there is a convert program but if want to save
data there are steps you need to perform before the convert.