Do I have a problem and if so what is it?

Hello Again to all,
Success has a sweet taste. The second try at formatting took approx. 2 1/2 hours and came out fine. Just finished getting everything copied over. Now a paranoid AV scan and then a backup. Thanks to all and to all a good night!
glennc

glennc said:

Hello Again to all,
Success has a sweet taste. The second try at formatting took approx. 2 1/2 hours and came out fine. Just finished getting everything copied over. Now a paranoid AV scan and then a backup. Thanks to all and to all a good night!
glennc

Get some sleep.
Well done.

You are welcome, we are 24/7 to help.

Good Day,
Hello my name is glennc and I'm a wuss! After the successful format and install, I endeavored to install 2 backup programs. Well I don't know what I was thinking but these programs were very automated and vigorous. Before I knew it my E: drive said it was only 696 GB instead of 1 TB. Worrying that I inadvertently caused a failure somehow, began investigating. I was going to do a thorough AV check and Malware and then use the product to backup. Well with my casual permission it had created a large hidden partition for itself on my drive and that is why it was reporting itself as smaller than it was. I can only claim tiredness. It also began to backup my drives without asking and I could not get it to stop. So I had to wait for it to finish. Then in a panic, I uninstalled the programs as they were not seen by Revo and hoped that they would play nice and let my partition return to the fold. No luck. So I set it formatting the drive for the third time that day and went to bed. Farck. This morning the spatial emissions were with me and it formatted perfectly. I am now AVing it. Then a backup of a great machine "Black Beauty".
Immense quantities of thanks and respect for those who had my back.
glennc

Well my luck is holding.... After 3 unsuccessful backup attempts with system image and one without and a 0x80070002 error, I did manage to make a seemingly successful system image. It will not backup with or without system image.
Looking online the error seems to have something to do with an unfinished download. Did Windows update and after checking for new updates, I download a windows defender definitions. I thought I had it turned off, but it was just not running resident.
I remember MS Baseline Security saying I had an unfinished download and after several attempts of rebooting and checking updates, I thought it was a glitch.
So I am presently unable to use Windows 7 Backup.
Does anyone have any idea?
glennc

Did you take all of that unnecessary security crap off of there, turn on the Windows firewall and install Microsoft Security Essentials?

From what you described earlier you had it strapped down so tightly I'm surprised anything runs.

Your best backup method is to drag your active User files to the storage drive, as backup programs that do the work for you will waste a lot of space.

gregrocker,
You may be right. But it has never failed me previously. I understand your point though and will take it under serious consideration. For now though I would like to get the backup program working or find out why its not. Macrium had no problem. So as usual I out of my depth. Thanks for your insightful advice.
glennc

As gregrocker may have a good point, does anyone know of a good program that will check the files in different folders and just copy the new or changed ones? That will be helpful in any case.
Hope you can assist. Take care.
glennc

I use Cobian Backup