This seems to be becoming an epidemic, I too have the very same problem. I
used to be able to do backups with no problem, then my backup hard drive got
full. I emptied the drive but now it gives me this error. I even added an
external drive but nothing works.
Eric C.
"rikki s." wrote:
Quote:
> "Dave Shrader", glad I'm not the only one with problem. My Pavillion a1700n
> desktop has Windows Vista Home Premium. I purchased this in March 07. Have
> not been able to run backup since May. Experienced recent crash, and had to
> have factory erase and recover PC. Am trying for initial Backup, but to no
> avail due to lack of space for shadow. I am a virgin with PC's and am totally
> confused.
> rikki s,
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> rikki s.
>
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> "Dave Shrader" wrote:
> Quote:
> > vista ultimate backup failure - shadow copy failure