Re: windows complete backup

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nelsonsdavis;929694 Wrote:
I deleted from my external sata drive all previous backups (incremental
and disc image). When I fire up "create windows complete pc backup and
restore image, i click on the back up computer button, the system looks
for backup devies, which it finds, my external hard drive on "F". I then
click on "next" and I see some text about "backup location", which is
correct. Down below this, in a box where it says "the following discs
will be back up", is blank. It does not show drive "C". There is nothing
in this box, and this makes me sad, because, of course when I click on
"start backup", I get the error message, "the backup failed". The error
message is "The specified number of volumns is invalid. (0x80780010).

I orginally deleted all the backups from my external drive because it
was running out of space, so I thought I'd clean them out and do another
backup and restore image. I now realize that the old ones would be auto
removed if the new backup started to run out of space. How foolish of
me.

In the meantime, I can do incrememtal backup (create backup copies of
your files and folders), which tells me it wants to do a full backup (of
all my data files, etc- obviously not a full system backup, which of
course it aint designed to do.

Now, I saw in a thread in this site a post which said to get remove the
message that old backups exist, go into the registry
under...........windows backup and delete all entries upder windows
backup - which I did to no avail.

So, why don't I see drive "c" in the window??? Also, above the window
it continues to tell me two earlier images exits (from december and june
on the "F" drive, though they have been deleted).

What did I break?

Thanks

Hello Nelson,

Not sure what you may have broke. ;)

However, doing a System Restore using a restore point dated before you
had this problem may be able to fix it for you. Afterwards, see if it
will let to run the Back Up Computer option.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-system-restore-how.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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