Back Up won't complete, Help?

[Mokong]

I've been scratching my head over this for probablly months now.

 

Whenever I try to run a system back up it never completes I keep getting an error saying

 

"Unsuccessful backup. I/O device error (0x8007045D)"

 

I've tried google and not really found anything that worked, tried running Chkdsk on both files as was instructed on Mirosofts Support site

 

But that didn't work.

 

Found other posts saying to turn off the restore point then turn it back on, didn't work either.

 

Anyone here got any ideas?

 

OS is Vista BTW if that helps

[Ike]

Found other posts saying to turn off the restore point then turn it back on, didn't work either.

 

Did you try deleting your old restore points? Unless turning it off does that anyway.

[Mokong]

Yeah it said turning off restore points would remove them automatically

[Platty]

Google told me this:

 

Go to the system settings and uncheck the drives so they no longer create shadow copies (restore function in Vista). Apply the new settings to erase all existing shadow copies. Then reset by checking the boxes you unchecked. Now try to backup the whole computer again. It appears a shadow copy error is conflicting with the backup process. Once you delete all shadow copies (restore points) it will work.

 

Make sure you have the most up to date windows updates for Vista. Apparently MS solved the issue?

[Mokong]

Cheers Platty, I've done that numerous times before and it doesn't help.

 

And MS must be lying cause I am fully up to date an obviously the problem isn't gone

[Platty]

Upgrade to Windows 7 or downgrade to XP?

[Mokong]

Haha, was waiting for someone to say that.

[Mokong]

Haha got it working again.

 

Ran another Chkdsk yesterday on the C drive only then tried a back up afterwards and it finally completed... took it's sweet ass time but it worked