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I've never been able to do a full backup on my HP desktop with Win7. It usually gets about 33% done, then quits, with the message "cannot complete backup because an application is in use".
I think my hard drive is starting to fail, and I would really like to get a backup done. Any suggestions / ideas ?
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I suggest googling that phrase.
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try booting into safe mode and then re-run the backup. which backup software? are you doing a file-by-file or image backup?
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If you have not already done it, copy all picture folders, data file folders containing Microsoft Word, Excel sheets, to a flash drive or DVD's.
They will then be easily transfered to a new system or reformatted drive.
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Thanks for all the suggestions; I will try these things. Going to buy an external HD today, and use that instead of copying to DVD's.
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I just installed a wireless two Tb ext HD, My Book Live by Western Digital. It comes with software that updates my backup in real time. I will never have to think about backing up again. That may be an option to consider.
I gave up on the backup included in WIN 7.
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In my past experience, I have not had good luck with backup software being able to restore. I now save everything in "Documents" right click> sent to> the external hard drive. From the external HD I can transfer all of my saved data to any computer in seconds. I do the same thing with "Pictures"
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Forget the built in backup/restore in Windows. Get yourself Acronis True Image back up software and an external USB drive of at least 1TB. You will get full backups of your harddrive(s)that are fast and secure. You will be able to create a disk that you can restore your computer with the image on the external drive if you computer ever crashes without having to reinstall Windows. And you can restore a single file, whatever folders you want, or the whole hard drive easily.
Never keep data on your PC - it should always be on external drives (even USB sticks) and those should be backed up regularly along with your hard drives.
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1775 wrote:Forget the built in backup/restore in Windows. Get yourself Acronis True Image back up software and an external USB drive of at least 1TB. You will get full backups of your harddrive(s)that are fast and secure. You will be able to create a disk that you can restore your computer with the image on the external drive if you computer ever crashes without having to reinstall Windows. And you can restore a single file, whatever folders you want, or the whole hard drive easily.
Never keep data on your PC - it should always be on external drives (even USB sticks) and those should be backed up regularly along with your hard drives.
i switched from Acronis True Image to EaseUS 3.0 (free). seems to do all the things that Acronis does except it does it faster. there are paid versions but so far the free version is working well.
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OP here... Thanks to everyone for your help and suggestions. As suggested, I ditched the HP backup program; then I bought an external hard drive from Costco, which nicely backed up my data using third party software. Everything's cool...
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