Backup error: Server execution failed (0x80080005)

make sure these services are running and set to start automatic:

1. Volume Shadow Copy
2. Virtual Disk

also I would run a check disk on your C drive itself

also you can try going to the Windows backup service log on tab and change from local system account to your user account and try that

computersplus said:

make sure these services are running and set to start automatic:

1. Volume Shadow Copy
2. Virtual Disk

First one was running, the 2nd one I started and set to auto.

computersplus said:

also I would run a check disk on your C drive itself

I did that yesterday and it took about 3 hours (give or take)!
Do I need to do it again?

computersplus said:

also you can try going to the Windows backup service log on tab and change from local system account to your user account and try that

Where do I find this?
Thanks for all of the help!

computersplus said:

Cavsfan said:

computersplus said:

also you can try going to the Windows backup service log on tab and change from local system account to your user account and try that

Where do I find this?
Thanks for all of the help!

just type services in the search box off the start menu then look for windows backup

I was not able to do that because it said I would have to do a whole bunch of other stuff
(this was after I stopped the service and started it back up).

I would rather SYSTEM performed this operation anyway.
And it is still broke! But, I do appreciate your "never give up" approach.
Thank you!!!

So I guess there is no fix for this problem is there?

Thanks for all of your efforts!

I don't know if this will help, but every day at 12:00 PM the PC tries to do a backup as it was scheduled before and I found this error in Component Services:
The backup was not successful. The error is: Your backup configuration is not valid. Review your backup settings. (0x81000029).
Event id: 4104

Code:

   - System     
 
    - Provider     
 
 
[  Name]  Windows  Backup
 
 
    - EventID 4104     
 
 
[  Qualifiers]  0
 
 
 
Level 2    
 
 
Task 0    
 
 
Keywords 0x80000000000000    
 
    - TimeCreated     
 
 
[  SystemTime]  2010-02-13T17:00:00.000000000Z
 
 
 
EventRecordID 11380    
 
 
Channel Application    
 
 
Computer WillyWorld    
 
 
Security
    - EventData     
 
 
Your backup  configuration is not valid. Review your backup settings.  (0x81000029)    
 
 
29000081E30500005308000058080000420ED1665C2BEE174B64529CB14610EA71000000
   Binary data:
 
 In Words
 0000: 81000029 000005E3 00000853 00000858  
0008: 66D10E42 17EE2B5C 9C52644B EA1046B1 
0010: 00000071    
 
 In Bytes
 0000: 29 00 00 81 E3 05 00 00    )..�ã...
0008: 53 08 00 00 58 08 00 00   S...X...
0010: 42 0E D1 66 5C 2B  EE 17   B.Ñf\+î.
0018: 4B 64 52 9C B1 46 10 EA   KdRœ±F.ê
0020: 71 00 00  00               q...

Does this help?

computersplus said:

ok here you go sounds like the recovery partition is marked active you need to change that

You may receive error messages when you try to perform a backup operation on a Windows Vista-based computer

Thanks, but I have already been there and my C: drive is the active partition.
When I click on C: and right click on it the "mark as active" is grayed out. Isn't that
what that means? Also, I think the "C:" disappeared a few days ago from Properties
(Click on Computer, right click on C: and go to properties) where the C: is was blank.
I just re-entered "C:" there and OK.

Would it be a good idea to follow the bottom of that page and do a repair install?
It says to do it w/o rebooting. Will this mess anything up?

Thanks for your prompt attention!

I have a Windows 7 repair disk. Will that work?

Thanks!