Win7 64 cannot run backup to specific hard drive

savesheep

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Hello!

I'm trying to set up the Backup to an internal hard drive called Z: After originally installing win 7 64bit, I had to manually assign a drive letter to the hd before windows would see it. This HD has nothing on it and is not used often so its perfect for my windows backup. However, when I start the backup setup - it does not list that hard drive in my options to backup to. When I manually goto CMD to run "wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:f: -include:c:" it gives me the error saying the HD is read-only and cannot store backups.

Under disk management, I am not allowed to reformat the z: drive - it says "Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk." It lists the Z: drive as being system, active, primary partition - WHY DOES WINDOWS THINK IT IS THE SYSTEM HD? It has 100% free space according to diskmanagement.

I ran a chkdsk on z: (it is still going on step 5) and there doesn't seem to be any errors yet :/ Any suggestions?

Thanks!
 

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will do! thank you!
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    C2D E8600 @ 3.3GHz
    Motherboard
    nForce SLI 680i
    Memory
    G Skill DDR2 1066 4x2GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Dual XFX FeForce 8500 GT 512MB SLI
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Some Dell LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    Western Digital 600GB
    Maxtor 500GB
    PSU
    Thermaltake Toughpower XT 850W SLI
    Case
    Antec Nine Hundred
    Cooling
    ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 1000
    Mouse
    Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000
    Internet Speed
    DSL
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