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When I select Windows complete PC backup it just keeps looking for backup

devices. I have a WD external USB drive attached. When I selct file backup

it quickly finds the drive but not when I try the complete PC backup. The

external drive is empty and has been reformatted NTFS. Any suggestions?


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In Device manager, the Properties of the drive, set the option for 'write

caching' on the "Policies" tab. Be Sure to use 'Safely Remove Hardware" when

disconnecting this drive.



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"James 9" <James 9@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

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Thanks Mark, but your suggestion did not fix the problem. No change was

noticed.



"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

No doubt, this is some problem with recognizing the ownership of the drive.

I would copy some file on there, and 'take ownership' to see if that helped.

My second drive as backup has no problem with complete PC backup. I am

thinking it's a problem with 'disk type', but since my 'firefly' flash drive

is recognized by backup, I'm not sure it's a USB issue (the most often

complained item on this whole board)

My guess would be it's some driver problem. I would use device manager to

uninstall, then 'scan for hardware changes' on all that stuff.

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