Backup Failure

[Don T.]

I just upgraded to Vista Business from XP Professional and my automatic
backup failed with this message "Catastrophic error (0x8000FFFF). I back up
to an external hard drive. I have a Compaq Presario notebook with an AMD
processor that I purchased in December.
Thx.
Don

 

[Bob J]

If still under warranty take it back!!!!!
--
Regards
Bob J
If advise given from anyone, solves problem or not, or if solved from
another source,post back & let us know.
Then we all benefit.



"Don T." wrote:

> I just upgraded to Vista Business from XP Professional and my automatic
> backup failed with this message "Catastrophic error (0x8000FFFF). I back up
> to an external hard drive. I have a Compaq Presario notebook with an AMD
> processor that I purchased in December.
> Thx.
> Don

 

[Don T.]

Solution Found:
Under an earlier post on 6/7/07 Jill Zoeller provided a link to the
following info that solved this problem.
http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/alexark/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=5

The first directions didn't work but I scrolled down further and found I had
to add a backslash to the command to fix the issue. Then it worked.

Thanks.
Don T.



"Bob J" wrote:

> If still under warranty take it back!!!!!
> --
> Regards
> Bob J
> If advise given from anyone, solves problem or not, or if solved from
> another source,post back & let us know.
> Then we all benefit.
>
>
>
> "Don T." wrote:
>
> > I just upgraded to Vista Business from XP Professional and my automatic
> > backup failed with this message "Catastrophic error (0x8000FFFF). I back up
> > to an external hard drive. I have a Compaq Presario notebook with an AMD
> > processor that I purchased in December.
> > Thx.
> > Don