back up nightmare

[t4n6o]

got an old 2.5 HDD from an old laptop (probs about 3 years old) wiped it, formatted it and put it in one of my hotswap style bays and started to run system back up on to it (80GB) after it went through weather i choose or let windows choose e.t.c. it sdatrted and stopped within 3 seconds saying was not able to create backup.


any ideas on how this can be rectified?

[AirfarceNone]

an 80GB backup wont fit on a 80GB HDD.

[MadduckUK]

this is a nightmare is it? really? check disk for bad sectors etc, then check there is sufficient real space on the drive for the amount of backup you need.

edit: yeah - 80gigs worth of backup will not fit on an "80GB" hard drive - due to LIES

[t4n6o]

its not the fact that it wont fit on i even tried it on my 2TB hdd but the same again after less than half a second into the back up it says was not able to create back up

[t4n6o]

just tried it on my 2TB HDD agan and this time it said did not complete

[watercooled]

How much free space is there on the source HDD? That error is saying there isn't enough space to create a 'shadow copy' image - a method of backing up open files.

[GoNz0]

have you disabled vss by any chance ?

[Splash]

Or do what it says in the error message - check the event logs for VSS and SPP source messages. I think Watercooled has hit the nail on the noggin though - you won't be able to create a VSS without an amount of free space on the source drive.