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Having problems creating an Automated System Recovery backup. I have one HDD partitioned as 10GB (for the system) and 70GB for files and progs. I'm trying to backup the C: drive settings and such to the 70GB partition. I get to the point where i indicate where i want to store the backup and then it runs through the procedure of recognising the system setup and then it reboots everytime. When the computer restarts, a dialog box explains that Windows has just recovered from a serious error... It doesn't give alot away as to what the error was. But this is annoying me.
If anyone has any clues as to why this is happening, please let me know.
Before attempting the backup, i did a virus scan and other scans for junk adware and stuff and generally cleaned up the harddrive so i wasn't backing up crap. There are a few essential progs on the C: drive and obviously drivers and such, but apart from that there isn't much on the system partition and there is tonnes of room on the other partition to store the data 10 times over.
Any help appreciated!
When you created ASR, did you follow the procedures given in this link?
How to Set up and Use ASR in Windows XP
i_XpUser
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Yeah...well up until the point where it just reboots.
I've just tried a manual backup using the same Backup Util, and it does the same thing!
It starts the copying of files and decides to reboot.
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Why the PC reboots when you were performing ASR is beyond me. Does this happens only with ASR?
i_XpUser
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Yeah. It seems to reboot just after aquiring the storage data, so it doesn't actually copy a thing before it reboots.
Both partitions are NTFS and on the same 'physical' HDD.
I'm starting to think there maybe a corruption or something in the ntbackup prog itself. Do you reckon it's worth removing and getting another copy?
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I don't think i know how to uninstall it actually. Isn't it just a utility? Free standing prog?
I'll have to look into that.
Cheers for the input thought XpUser, much appreciated. I'll let you know if i...when i get it sorted!
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I tried safe mode after a few other things, and this time it didn't reboot (without proper shut down as it usually does). This time the ntbackup actually gave me a report to read, which goes like this:
Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: "Backup.bkf created 19/10/2004 at 14:14"
Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:Catastrophic failure
Aborting Backup.----------------------
The operation did not successfully complete.
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I could turn off shadow copying, but that would be pointless as it doesn't then let you backup your system state, which is what i wanted to do in the first place.
I know i could use some form of imager, but i wanted to use MS backup as it's supposed to work nice with the integration of the XP CD startup (F2), should anything go wrong.
If you have any ideas, please let me know...i'm struggling!
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FOUND the problem!
A 'so called' os driver named windrvNT.sys was crashing my machine everytime i used ntbackup. I renamed it so the system ignored it (didn't delete just in case) and rebooted. Tried the ntbackup again and it worked fine.
Thanks for your time though.
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