Vista - Windows Vista Ultimate Backup Files Failed (0x81000014)

I just got a Gateway CX210X notebook preinstalled with Windows Vista Ultimate
Edition. I've been trying to use the Vista Backup and Restore Center's Back
Up Files setting to backup my files, after I realized that having a Complete
PC Backup won't let me recover individual files from that image. However, no
matter what I try, the backup fails, usually several hours into the process,
and I get this message:

The backup did not complete successfully.

An error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the
error:

There is not enough space on your Windows disk to prepare for backing up
your
files. At least 400 MB of free space is required to continue. (0x81000014)

The 100GB SATA drive that came with my system was setup by Gateway with 2
partitions, (C:, 83.5GB currently with 35GB free, and D:, 9.65GB currently
with 3.19 GB free).

After several attempts to backup to DVD-R and DVD-RW failed (each time about
7 DVDs into the backup), I attempted to backup to a 152GB external Firewire
drive (with 152GB free, G:, in my system), but received the same error as
when I attempted to backup to the optical media (E.

Anyone know why this is happening, and how I can successfully backup my files?

I received the same error on a dell 9200 with Vista ultimate. I removed the
pictures from the data set and it completed successfully.

"Phil" wrote:

> I just got a Gateway CX210X notebook preinstalled with Windows Vista Ultimate
> Edition. I've been trying to use the Vista Backup and Restore Center's Back
> Up Files setting to backup my files, after I realized that having a Complete
> PC Backup won't let me recover individual files from that image. However, no
> matter what I try, the backup fails, usually several hours into the process,
> and I get this message:
>
> The backup did not complete successfully.
>
> An error occurred. The following information might help you resolve the
> error:
>
> There is not enough space on your Windows disk to prepare for backing up
> your
> files. At least 400 MB of free space is required to continue. (0x81000014)
>
> The 100GB SATA drive that came with my system was setup by Gateway with 2
> partitions, (C:, 83.5GB currently with 35GB free, and D:, 9.65GB currently
> with 3.19 GB free).
>
> After several attempts to backup to DVD-R and DVD-RW failed (each time about
> 7 DVDs into the backup), I attempted to backup to a 152GB external Firewire
> drive (with 152GB free, G:, in my system), but received the same error as
> when I attempted to backup to the optical media (E.
>
> Anyone know why this is happening, and how I can successfully backup my files?

Yikes, Thyroid22. I hope that's not the ONLY solution to my woes. The files
I'm MOST interested in backing up are the graphic files.

Did you decide not to include the entire folder(s) where your pictures
resided, or just individual files?

"Thyroid22" wrote:

> I received the same error on a dell 9200 with Vista ultimate. I removed the
> pictures from the data set and it completed successfully.
>

I'm having the same problem as Phil. Plenty of space available on backup drives (400Gb to back up 130Gb), but the dreaded 0x81000014 error message several hours in.

I have seen this problem a few times in the user forums, but never any solution suggested. Does anyone have any ideas?

I tried using the McAfee backup feature and had a similar glitch a few hours into the backup (though no error code returned). Perhaps they tap in to the Vista backup routine.

I was able to do a simple copy of the same data to the same backup drive -- so clearly it is the Vista software that is glitchy, not my hardware.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- Dave