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