Vista - Problem with Complete PC Backup, not so complete

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.

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:26:01 -0700, R5 <R5@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Easy solution: Acronis True Image. $25 at Newegg.com with free
shipping.

"R5" <R5@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C0DDE582-8C07-431B-8C68-4E6E95D7657C@xxxxxxApparently 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

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:

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:50:00 -0700, R5 <R5@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Don't hold your breath. This is a user-to-user support group. As a
rule, it is not frequented by MS people.

Nice, just buy another program? No, Microsoft should buy them and incorporate it for those of us who shelled out the money for the advanced versions (e.g. Ultimate). I guess I will just send in my receipt to Microsoft since this is advertised as one of the features and they are not addressing it. If they refuse then I guess it is time to start another class action lawsuit for ALL the aspects of Vista that STILL do not work, yet are still advertised as such.

Glad I found the precedent here: Full text: Microsoft execs on Vista problems