Windows Backup nearly completes but fails with 0x81000001 error

Anonymous
2010-08-04T12:36:12+00:00

I've been trying for a long while to backup to a 1.5TB hard drive. I have my documents on my E: drive and my Windows 7 installation on my C: drive. Windows backup is set to backup my E: drive and also a system image to my backup I: drive. There's plenty of space on it - it's completely blank.

Every time I try to run Windows Backup, it almost completes, then at the last moment I'm told it's failed with error 0x81000001 - "an internal error", which isn't very informative.

I've run error checks on the backup hard drive and haven't found any problems. Also run sfc - no problems found.

Has anyone any suggestions?

Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-11-27T14:07:16+00:00

    Tried some additional testing with that 175GB file, the error I get is still the same as before (0x80070008). The article has been posted to my web site and the next thing I plan to do is see if the technique in the article will fix the 0x80070008 error.

    Your partitions also have a small 100MB "System" partition followed by the C:\ 100GB (includes Windows installation) and E:\ 1.92TB (includes My Documents folder).

    I just noticed that you indicated that the "My Documents" folder is on the E: partition. Did you move it from the default C: partition to E: and if so how did you accomplish this. May have some bearing on the problem.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-11-27T08:30:37+00:00

    Just to explain my partition size set-up, in case it sheds any light on the matter:

    C:\ 100GB (includes Windows installation)

    E:\ 1.92TB (includes My Documents folder)

    Thanks for your work.

    Andrew

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-11-27T08:26:56+00:00

    Know of any place where I can download a 160GB file?

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    I generated my large files by creating TrueCrypt volumes.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-11-25T03:44:06+00:00

    Created a file that was about 175GB. Tried twice to reproduce the error. Note: Destination drive has more than 900GB of free space.

    1. 175GB file located only in the root of the Windows partition (C:\MyFile.zip). Backup did not fail.
    2. Copied the file to the Documents folder. Now there where two 175GB files. Backup failed with error code 0x80070008 "Not enough storage is available to process this command."

    More testing to do.

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  5. Anonymous
    2010-11-24T03:04:57+00:00

    Know of any place where I can download a 160GB file?

    JS

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