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
    2010-09-29T15:24:53+00:00

    It's a large uncompressed video file (.avi) used for intermediate rendering in video editing.

    I don't believe that a system image would pick up these files since they're on a different partition.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-09-28T15:56:25+00:00

    What is this 160GB file (.exe, .iso, .zip, ?)

    I'm doing some testing on Backup and Restore for my next web page article and if I can I'll look into the problem for you.

    JS

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-09-27T14:50:44+00:00

    Well I've never had to backup a single file that large. What I can tell you is that if the file is located somewhere in your 'Documents' folder it is Zipped and stored in a destination folder who's name is the same as your computer named. A second copy is stored in the System Image file.

    Have you tried just a simple 'System Image' backup (option is located in upper left of Backup and Restore.

    JS

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-09-26T14:21:16+00:00

    Can you do a copy and paste of this file 160GB from source location to the backup and restore destination?

    JS

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  5. Anonymous
    2010-09-19T13:50:07+00:00

    Try either of these two product and see if you still have a backup issue.

    Norton Ghost version 15 - has a 30 day trial available

    http://www.symantec.com/norton/ghost

    Supports: CDR/RW, DVD+-R/RW, Blu-Ray devices,USB and FireWire® (IEEE 1394) devices,Iomega® Zip® and Jaz® drives

    (Trial does not allow you to create a Bootable Restore CD)

    http://www.symantec.com/norton/downloads/trialsoftware/register.jsp?pvid=ghost15

    User's Guide: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/ghost/15/manuals/ngh_15_user_guide.pdf

    Acronis True Image 2011 - has a 30 day trial version available,

    (Install Acronis and then create a Restore/Rescue Media CD before you start creating an image backup)

    http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

    Version Comparison: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/comparison.html

    True Image User Guides and documentation:

    http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/docs/

    JS

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