Backup Constantly Fails

I use MS imaging and file/folder backup as well as Macrium (as a backup- excuse pun). Irrespective of the virtues of putting images/backups on a seperate partition of the same drive the fact is that you should be able to. If it was me, I wouldn't be happy until I found out why MS backup wasn't working.
Given that you seem to tried most things I guess you've scanned your HDD for bad sectors?

richc46 said:

This is what you do. Make a back up and put it away and forget about it.

Make weekly backups in a separate location

Right on! Doing this has saved me 100's of hours of manual restoration.

~Maxx~

richc46 said:

I liked that comment. By lost each other I meant we were one on one, until a few others came by.

Oh right! Sorry about confusion!

mjf said:

I use MS imaging and file/folder backup as well as Macrium (as a backup- excuse pun). Irrespective of the virtues of putting images/backups on a seperate partition of the same drive the fact is that you should be able to. If it was me, I wouldn't be happy until I found out why MS backup wasn't working.
Given that you seem to tried most things I guess you've scanned your HDD for bad sectors?

You're right: I really want to find out why it isn't working, when it should. Did scan for bad sectors in all drives, and no errors found.

eldinv said:

Question your disk management screen shot only shows one disk and one optical drive?

Do you have another screen shot that shows something else?

You trying to backup the C-drive (OS) and save the backup to your D-drive, bad idea!

I also use Macrium and find it more user friendly. You will still need a second physical drive.

Good luck!

That's all there is on my computer. Screenshots are all there. One disk partitioned. Please read my earlier posts! I explained why I'm only doing this temporarily and explained how aware I am of my temporary decision!

One final long shot...
under services.msc my "Volume Shadow Copy" has startup type as "Manual" and I vaguely recall this setting being suggested somewhere.

mjf said:

One final long shot...
under services.msc my "Volume Shadow Copy" has startup type as "Manual" and I vaguely recall this setting being suggested somewhere.

No luck here! It was set to 'Manual' when I initially used it. I then changed it to 'Automatic' to see if it was any help - and it was of no help! So, I now have it switched back to 'Manual' - same disappointing result.

Thanks anyway mjf!

I will try Macrium Reflect later and report back on results.

Well, I tried Macrium Reflect and was happy with the result.

A 19.2GB of space used on C: was created into an image of 11.8GB (using default settings of free version).

I finally got my backup via other means of those which I had hoped, but the problem still lingers with Windows 7 Backup.

If there is a solution out there, come find me - I will be waiting! Maybe a solution will materialise in SP1 (whenever that may be). I hope it won't be rushed! "All good things come to those who can wait".


Thanks very much to everyone who helped! I really appreciate everyone's input.

Its great to hear that your Macrium Reflect backup went well. As far as the problem with the Windows 7 System Image goes I was having some problems a while back myself until I restored the registry after getting a little zealous with Revo Pro and now it works just fine.

~Maxx~