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Lady:
Thank you, that was very informative. :smiley:
Yes, I did that with Revo Uninstaller Pro until this friend of mine, the head of the tech dept. of my pc shop, told me to use the portable version which was freeware. But then I got into trouble as I didn't know that version only finds the 32-bits programs as you told me. So back to the naughty routine. :smiley:
I thought we were finished, Boggin, but now I just found out I cannot make SIBs of my desktop pc. I'll make a new topic.
THANK YOU for all your help with this thread!!! <3
Lady:
Second post:
To be clear: i'm now trying to make a SIB of my desktop pc.
I get an error message indicating there's something wrong with the I/O devices. See attachment. It's in Dutch, I'll translate:
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Making a system image backup
The backup failed.
One of the backup files cannot be made (0x8078002A)
Additional info:
The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error (0x8007045D)
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The backup failed for both my external HDDs with the same error message. I looked up the codes and different solutions are being given, like chkdsk for the external HDDs, but I don't understand. These HDDs are fairly new.
My intuitive feeling is that I first should do an overhaul of my desktop pc like I did with my laptop, remember? I wanted to do that after I cleaned my laptop as I have been feeling for a while that the desktop is not functioning properly anymore. FYI: after I bought this desktop I had MAJOR problems with bluescreens and all kinds of nasty stuff. That's how I came here. Somebody told me to do a Windows Repair. And after a year of trying everything in the book on another forum and I was near a meltdown again as you can imagine, everything was solved after the Repair. I mean, Shane is my HERO now!
But I feel it's time to do some cleaning again. Would you mind helping me out again?
So the first step should be doing a Windows Repair All In One, right? I run all kinds of scans regularly, like MBAM and my BullGuard Antivirus programme, and ESET Online scanner, so there is no malware to be seen in miles around!! Or do you have any other suggestions to do first?
The Repair All In One should be run in Safe Mode if I remember correctly. I'm always scared of doing that, but I think I'll just pull myself through it again. :S
Boggin:
What is the OS on the Desktop and have you been able to use these external HDDs on the Desktop before ?
Reading this article http://gadgets.itwriting.com/998-why-your-new-2tb-or-3tb-drive-will-not-work-with-windows-backup.html suggests it could be a compatibility issue as they are new HDDs, but run the command on each HDD as suggested in the article to see if this applies to your HDDs.
Lady:
My desktop OS is Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bits.
My external HDDs, both Seagate 2 Tb, were bought in August 2014 and February 2015 and are permanently connected to my desktop pc and have been performing flawlessly since they were attached. I use them daily for backing up files manually.
I read the article and ran the command for each HDD and they both have a 4K sector size, both physical and logical, so they're 4K native. I don't understand much of all kinds of related articles I read but I gather there is no solution if they're 4K native, only if they have a 4K logical and a 512-byte physical sector (Advanced Format). I looked on the Seagate site but they just say: use software that is 4K-aware.....which for the backup programmes is Windows 8 (my laptop has W8, indeed no problem with the SIB). I tried to make a SIB on my 500 Gb Seagate portable HD that I have for my laptop, but that didn't work either, although this HD has 4K physical sectors and a 512 logical sector (error code there was 0x80070015, searched on that code but nothing.) I guess I have to use the fix that is available for the Advanced Format HDDs, but I don't really want to use the small HDD for this SIB, it takes up more than 66 Gb.
Do you still follow me? :cheesy:
So, I wasted a lot of hours reading difficult stuff and as far as I know now, this cannot be solved. Seagate points at Microsoft and Microsoft only made a fix for the Advanced Format HDDs. Western Digital seems to have made a fix for their 4K native HDDs......
I hope this is all correct what I'm stating. Well, I suppose I can live without the desktop SIB. :S (See how often this smiley comes in handy, hahaha. The emoticon for "confused" looks the part, but it shouldn't be meaning confused, it's more like: oh, bummer.) In case of a total crash, I just re-install the old-fashioned way.
Or can you come up with any ideas, Boggin?
Boggin:
Not if Seagate can't :D - compatibility is compatibility or lack of it.
Each system image for the same machine won't keep taking up 60 - 70GB each time as it just overwrites the previous one and would only grow by how much extra you had put on the machine.
I have system images for 4 laptops on a Seagate 500GB external and there's still ~240GB free - although there isn't a great deal on each machine.
I have a 1TB Seagate that works okay on a Win 7 laptop but I formatted that to NTFS before I used it, although from the article, only 2 and 3TB HDDs are afflicted with this problem.
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