Re: backing to external hardrive
- From: "Poprivet" <poprivet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:56:50 -0400
paulr wrote:
I have recently purchased a n external hardrive. I am now trying to
back up everything on my computer using the windows backup
facility.Here is what I have done so far.
Clicked on "my computer"
Right click on "C" drive
Clicked on "properties"
Then "Tools"
Then "Backup now"
The Wizard appears. so far so good.
Clicked next on "backup files and settings
Ticked "All information on this computer" then next.
Then selected my hardrive which is "G" and typed in a tiltle
Then "next" and the wizard gives me a confirmation of what I have set
Then clicked "Finish"
The backup dialogue box appears then straight away another pop up
window appears saying "The file for the recovery disc could not be
created.The operation was aborted"
Can anybody tell me where I am going wrong or what I need to do to
correct this problem"
Paulr
You aren't by any chance using the ASR wizard, are you? If so, use the
standard wizard.
I think it's more likely a space problem.
XP's Backup will not compress files so if you have 100 Gig of files to
back up, it's going to require over 100 Gig to store the backup file, plus
some overhead.
To see how much space you need, open My Computer. Note that each drive has
the Free and Used space listed for it. From that you can calculate how much
used space you have. You'll need more than that figure to store the backup
file.
If you can't afford an imaging program, which does compress files, WinZip
still have a freebie version of WinZip you could use to compress all your
files into one large zip file; then use that as your backup file. Just be
sure to check to tell it to save file locations and it'll put all files back
where they came from.
NOTE: This will NOT backup files "in use", which imaging and backup
programs can do. So it's really only good for data, not for the operating
system.
HTH
Pop`
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