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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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Click Backup and Restore's Manage space option. In the Manage Windows Backup disk window, you will find information about the current backup destination.
JS
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I can open the Manage Windows Backup window, but what am I looking for in it?
Click Backup and Restore's Manage space option. In the Manage Windows Backup disk window, you will find information about the current backup destination.
JS
Never be afraid to ask. This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help.
Click Backup and Restore's Manage space option. In the Manage Windows Backup disk window, you will find information about the current backup destination.
JS
Never be afraid to ask. This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help.
Yes, but how is the information there useful to me in solving this problem?
By default the backup destination device / partition must have at least 30% more free space than the partition / hard drive you are trying to backup.
JS
Never be afraid to ask. This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help.
By default the backup destination device / partition must have at least 30% more free space than the partition / hard drive you are trying to backup.
JS
Never be afraid to ask. This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help.
Do you mean the backup destination 30% more free space than the free space of the backup source, or 30% more than theused space of the backup source? In any case, I'm trying to back up about 960GB of data to a 1.36TB drive, so I think I should have enough space.
I've now tried different hard drives and different cables so I'm strongly suspecting that Windows Backup has some sort of bug in it that's causing it to choke on my backup for some reason.
