Error Code 0x8078002A & Partition Issue

[Swampus]

Hi and thanks for letting me join the forum,

I am the proud owner of a Compaq CQ5047UK-M PC which Ibought in April 07, it’s getting old now I agree but to be honest its works absolutelyfine and does what we need it to do

(Hope that I haven’t spoken to soon).

It’s running Windows 7 64 bit and I have upgraded the ram to8 gig, I like to run backups on a daily basis as we have lots of pics andvideos etc that we would hate to lose, sothis is done to an external drive.

I like to change these external drives every few years just incase they develop a fault, so recently I bought myself a Toshiba DWC130 3Tbexternal drive, whilst I was at the suppliers I also bought a USB 3.0 PCIexpress card to speed things up.

Back at home computer cover removed and given a good cleanup with the vacuum, USB card installed, cover on drivers loaded and all workingok.

I then ran windows backup to the new external drive andafter some 3 or so hours I get error code 0x8078002A, had a Google and afterlooking at several web sites (this one included) I find something on the linesthat Window backup doesn’t like drives over 2.5 Tb and advises to run Windows partitionto partition the drive.

I did this and left the sizing, settings etc to the wizard,ran backup again only to find the same error code to pop up.

I thought right let’s reduce the size of the new main driveto under 2Tb (currently 2048.00) but all that happens is a new partitionappears within that partition. The remainder of the drive is

746.52 And is described as unallocated and if I should rightclick on it all that I can get are Properties and Help...

Now I am far from a computer wiz but I can normally get todo what I set out to do after reading up on a forum or web page but this hasstumped me.

So what I was wondering is, how can I get back my 746.52GB’s that I have lost and how can I set up the new external hard drive tobackup my data with out to much hassle.

Many Thanks in advance Swamps

 

[GokAy]

Before someone actually comment about your issue: Try another product like Macrium free? It should have support for GPT drives. If you mix it with a file/folder sync software like FreeFileSync it should be pretty solid.

 

[Swampus]

I take it that this is a difficult one then

Thanks Gokay I shall have a look, am I correct that this is a backup programme

Swamps

 

[GokAy]

I don't know if it is difficult or not I am not using Windows Backup.

Most people here use Macrium free without any issues, and yes it is a backup/imaging software. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html
However, I believe free version doesn't do file/folder backup. You can use FreeFileSync to backup your data files/folders.

 

[Boozad]

Do you not get a 'New Simple Volume' option when right clicking on the unallocated space?

 

[Swampus]

Do you not get a 'New Simple Volume' option when right clicking on the unallocated space?

Hi Boozad, no I wasn't, that's what confused me but I'm pleased to say that all has been sorted now with EaseUs partition master (free version)
Nice bit of software that's easy to use, recovered the partition that basically couldn't do nothing with.

So all I need do now is sort out some backup software ....

Many Thanks for your reply.

Regards Swamps

 

[Swampus]

I don't know if it is difficult or not I am not using Windows Backup.

Most people here use Macrium free without any issues, and yes it is a backup/imaging software. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html
However, I believe free version doesn't do file/folder backup. You can use FreeFileSync to backup your data files/folders.

Thanks GoKAy,
Yes just had a look and your correct.
I need to be able to backup folders/files etc , thanks all the same

Swamps