"R5" <R5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C302F07B-59F2-4C8F-8545-31A9B6F44F99@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the replies, hopefully someone from Microsoft will actually
> respond to this,

Frankly, this is unlikely to occur here.

You'd have to ask the question in a place where MS is active, say at a
shareholder's meeting.

In the meantime, consider the results and the value of your time and data,
vs. the few dollars for a utility that works well.

HTH
-pk

> because this is pretty pathetic. The native backup that has
> come with Windows has always been dependable, now this stuff is failing,
> and
> reporting that it was successful.
>
> I have had good luck with this software on my other Vista machine, but it
> was only a 80gb drive.
>
> "Patrick Keenan" wrote:
>
>> "R5" <R5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C0DDE582-8C07-431B-8C68-4E6E95D7657C@microsoft.com...
>> > The backup is not failing, it says it's complete, but the file that it
>> > creates is less than 70GB, and my drive is 225GB full out of 279GB.
>> > The
>> > machine is running Vista Ultimate and running Vista Media Center.
>> > 157GB
>> > of
>> > the files are recorded shows, my music and pictures. I'm expecting a
>> > file
>> > closer to 225GB, especially since media files don't compress well (if
>> > this
>> > program compresses).
>> >
>> > I find it awfully coincidental that 225 - 157 = 68, which is about the
>> > size
>> > of my backup file.
>> >
>> > The bigger problem is that I can't use the backup it creates. When I
>> > go
>> > to
>> > the restore operation, it finds the backup, I hit start and get back
>> > Restore
>> > Failed, element not found 0x80070490, which leads me to believe the
>> > backup
>> > is
>> > incomplete.
>>
>> Apparently the backup *is* failing. It's just misreporting the failure.
>>
>> There are reasons many people don't use the Windows backup utilities.
>> Works
>> for some people, not for others. I suggest an imaging program, and
>> agree
>> that Acronis TrueImage is a good bet, and inexpensive.
>>
>> HTH
>> -pk
>>
>>