Windows Vista Backing up System

I was performing a Backup on my Laptop when it said "error" "Drive could not find sector requeted (0x8007001B)" Does anyone know what this means. I have recently recieved help with removing viruses using spybot and hijackthis and the computer runs great so i then decided to do a back up and this comes up. I have Windows Vista Home Premium

 

thanks for the help. I was using CD's but i will try one of my external Hard drives next. I will let you know what happens. I thought it was a problem on my Computer. Thanks again.

 

We are all backed up now in a good way.

I had room left on an extra external hardrive. My HP Recovery drive was criticaly low. since the back up was good i went ahead and removed the Recovery Partition. Was that a good idea?

 

It's dangerous to use chkdsk /r without a clone disk on hand. I'm not sure what has been backed up on your recovery disk and which software did the backup. A lot of one-touch backup hard drives back up data only. You're using Home Premium, aren't you? Home Premium cannot do system backup either.

If you can find a maxtor / seagate hard drive, you can go to http://www.seagate.com/support to download seagate wizard and do a clone. It'll fix up some bad sector problems as well. And if you do anything wrong when you fix the hard disk, you can swap in the clone hard drive and work immediately.

If you have resources concern, ask for help again in the thread. Good luck.

 

Thanks for all of the Help

I have Succesfully Backed up my system and got rid of the recovery drive on my computer. I have windows vista and used a seagate 150gig harddrive to store all of my recovery on. I researched a little about deleting the recovery partition and i feel comfortable with the process. As long as i do not add any programs to my system before a crash. The last save on my seagate will cover all on my computer until the last save. Again, Thanks for all of the help.

 

When, or if, you need to run a reinstallation of the system, could it say "There was a problem" and the reinstall fails?

The situation seems a little precarious.

Back up to optical disks if you can, not a system backup, just put your valuable data on them. You can get that back no matter what happens.

Do some research on backup. For me, I want it to actually work when it counts.

Matt

 

I apologize for the wording of my last post. I originally was going to back up my system on discs. it was not working properly and another gentleman from this site helped me fix the problem. once i fixed it i noticed my recovery drive on the computer was extremly low of space. I backed up my system to a seagate external hard drive then got rid of my partition for a recovery drive on the computer. i asked questions to a few of my friends that works on computers for a job and i looked at the help and support center and found that removing the partition for the recovery drive was ok. I use the external hard drive for programs i like to save but do not need on my computer to save space. from what i have been told the external hard drive back up will do exactly what saving on disc's would do. my quotes were a little vague. what i meant to say was my computer will be good up until that restore point. If i download more programs or anything i will have to perform another back up to save all of the information. I hope that clears things up a little more.

 

Here's another option...
As your using a Seagate drive you could download Maxblast5, which is a version of Acronis True Image licensed to Seagate/Maxtor. It's a slightly lighter version than the full True Image and will only work with Seagate or Maxtor drives. After a full backup you can verify the backup image for peace of mind. I have used Acronis True Image for a few years now, and it would have to be the easiest and most reliable backup programme I've used. I've restored my system many times with it. Never had a restore failure. If you do a new backup every month or two you're left with only a small amount of updating after a restore.

I'm writing this on a $100 Toshiba A30 laptop I bought from a mate. I only have 1 of the 3 Toshiba restore disks, so have had to use True Image to create a couple of system backups as my only way back if I have a catastrophic software issue. I know True Image will be as reliable as the original disks would have been.

As Matt says. "For me, I want it to actually work when it counts. "

http://www.seagate.com/support/maxblast/mb_ug.en.pdf

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=65af7bb4d9391110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD

 

One point to note about hard drive cloning.

Some software will look at the hard drive signature. I have encountered a few times that after replacement of the clone hard drive, I am asked for the serial number / activation keys again. Make sure you have them on hand, or have prior arrangement with the software supplier.

Also, if you apply hard drive encryption, Acronis may not work at all. Test drive it before depending on it.

 

thanks for the help. I wrote my keys down and put them with other disks i have for safe keeping. you all have been a great help.