Thanks for the replies, hopefully someone from Microsoft will actually
respond to this, because this is pretty pathetic. The native backup that has
come with Windows has always been dependable, now this stuff is failing, and
reporting that it was successful.
I have had good luck with this software on my other Vista machine, but it
was only a 80gb drive.
"Patrick Keenan" wrote:
Quote:
> "R5" <R5@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C0DDE582-8C07-431B-8C68-4E6E95D7657C@xxxxxx Quote:
> > The backup is not failing, it says it's complete, but the file that it
> > creates is less than 70GB, and my drive is 225GB full out of 279GB. The
> > machine is running Vista Ultimate and running Vista Media Center. 157GB
> > of
> > the files are recorded shows, my music and pictures. I'm expecting a file
> > closer to 225GB, especially since media files don't compress well (if this
> > program compresses).
> >
> > I find it awfully coincidental that 225 - 157 = 68, which is about the
> > size
> > of my backup file.
> >
> > The bigger problem is that I can't use the backup it creates. When I go
> > to
> > the restore operation, it finds the backup, I hit start and get back
> > Restore
> > Failed, element not found 0x80070490, which leads me to believe the backup
> > is
> > incomplete.
>
> Apparently the backup *is* failing. It's just misreporting the failure.
>
> There are reasons many people don't use the Windows backup utilities. Works
> for some people, not for others. I suggest an imaging program, and agree
> that Acronis TrueImage is a good bet, and inexpensive.
>
> HTH
> -pk
>
>