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Vista 64 Complete Backup Issue

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I'm having real issues with Vista Complete back up. I normally back up every day and i went to back up today and i receive this message. 'Windows could not find backup devices. The following information may explain why this error occured. catastrophic error 0x800FFFF'

The strange thing is that if i look in 'My Computer' 'Device Manager' and 'Bios' all my disk drives are there. I have always backed up onto my second 500gb HD and it has always worked. I have even tried plugging in another HD with different cables to save the back up to this disk and do a restore. However, this disk isn't detected by the complete back up either. In fact not even my 2 DVD drives or my flash drive.

I have searched for hours for a fix and it seems I'm stumped. This is a real problem now as i deleted the back up of my OS to see if this would change the problem.

Can anybody help me, PLEASE?

Saturday, December 27, 2008 4:36 PM

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Hi,

Please refer to the following article first.

You may receive error messages when you try to perform a backup operation on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/950167/en-us

If the issue persists, I suggest further discussing this issue in the following forum:

Backup – Windows and Windows Server

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/threads/

I hope your issue can be resolved soon.

Tim Quan - MSFT
- Marked as answer by Tim QuanModerator Monday, December 29, 2008 5:42 AM
Monday, December 29, 2008 5:41 AM

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Anybody able to help with this? I'm in a real mess now as i have a machine which has all my files and setting on it and i cant back up.

Saturday, December 27, 2008 6:59 PM
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Hi,

Please refer to the following article first.

You may receive error messages when you try to perform a backup operation on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/950167/en-us

If the issue persists, I suggest further discussing this issue in the following forum:

Backup – Windows and Windows Server

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/threads/

I hope your issue can be resolved soon.

Tim Quan - MSFT
- Marked as answer by Tim QuanModerator Monday, December 29, 2008 5:42 AM
Monday, December 29, 2008 5:41 AM

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