Back ups takes ages! Why?

...thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.



If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

...thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.



If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

....just got a response from Western Digital. They can offer no way of
checking my external hard drive and if there is a fault there is no way of
fixing it, apparently! I ran 'scandisk' on my 'c' drive and picked up one
bad sector that was repaired.

"offwego" wrote:

..thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.



If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

....just got a response from Western Digital. They can offer no way of
checking my external hard drive and if there is a fault there is no way of
fixing it, apparently! I ran 'scandisk' on my 'c' drive and picked up one
bad sector that was repaired.

"offwego" wrote:

..thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.



If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

offwego wrote:
...just got a response from Western Digital. They can offer no way of
checking my external hard drive and if there is a fault there is no way of
fixing it, apparently! I ran 'scandisk' on my 'c' drive and picked up one
bad sector that was repaired.

You probably should run scandisk again, then if clean, run defrag.


"offwego" wrote:

..thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.


If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

offwego wrote:
...just got a response from Western Digital. They can offer no way of
checking my external hard drive and if there is a fault there is no way of
fixing it, apparently! I ran 'scandisk' on my 'c' drive and picked up one
bad sector that was repaired.

You probably should run scandisk again, then if clean, run defrag.


"offwego" wrote:

..thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.


If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

....will do.

I ran a defrag last night after my first Scandisk but will try the Scandisk
and defrag again if you think it's a good idea.

"Rick Merrill" wrote:

offwego wrote:
...just got a response from Western Digital. They can offer no way of
checking my external hard drive and if there is a fault there is no way of
fixing it, apparently! I ran 'scandisk' on my 'c' drive and picked up one
bad sector that was repaired.

You probably should run scandisk again, then if clean, run defrag.


"offwego" wrote:

..thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.


If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

....will do.

I ran a defrag last night after my first Scandisk but will try the Scandisk
and defrag again if you think it's a good idea.

"Rick Merrill" wrote:

offwego wrote:
...just got a response from Western Digital. They can offer no way of
checking my external hard drive and if there is a fault there is no way of
fixing it, apparently! I ran 'scandisk' on my 'c' drive and picked up one
bad sector that was repaired.

You probably should run scandisk again, then if clean, run defrag.


"offwego" wrote:

..thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.


If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

offwego wrote:
...will do.

I ran a defrag last night after my first Scandisk but will try the Scandisk
and defrag again if you think it's a good idea.

"Rick Merrill" wrote:

offwego wrote:
...just got a response from Western Digital. They can offer no way of
checking my external hard drive and if there is a fault there is no way of
fixing it, apparently! I ran 'scandisk' on my 'c' drive and picked up one
bad sector that was repaired.
You probably should run scandisk again, then if clean, run defrag.


"offwego" wrote:

..thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.

If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience




Once in a while a corrupt sector will contain a piece of a fragmented
file. Running checkdisk or equivalent a second time will repair this
and similar other possible problems, but the odds are low that you
really need it. (Oh, and if you have NTFS you probably do not need to.)

offwego wrote:
...will do.

I ran a defrag last night after my first Scandisk but will try the Scandisk
and defrag again if you think it's a good idea.

"Rick Merrill" wrote:

offwego wrote:
...just got a response from Western Digital. They can offer no way of
checking my external hard drive and if there is a fault there is no way of
fixing it, apparently! I ran 'scandisk' on my 'c' drive and picked up one
bad sector that was repaired.
You probably should run scandisk again, then if clean, run defrag.


"offwego" wrote:

..thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.

If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience




Once in a while a corrupt sector will contain a piece of a fragmented
file. Running checkdisk or equivalent a second time will repair this
and similar other possible problems, but the odds are low that you
really need it. (Oh, and if you have NTFS you probably do not need to.)

Many thanks for your help. I was surprised that Western Digital have no way
of checking their drives! Thanks for the advice on my PC's (NTFS) hard drive.


"Rick Merrill" wrote:

offwego wrote:
...will do.

I ran a defrag last night after my first Scandisk but will try the Scandisk
and defrag again if you think it's a good idea.

"Rick Merrill" wrote:

offwego wrote:
...just got a response from Western Digital. They can offer no way of
checking my external hard drive and if there is a fault there is no way of
fixing it, apparently! I ran 'scandisk' on my 'c' drive and picked up one
bad sector that was repaired.
You probably should run scandisk again, then if clean, run defrag.


"offwego" wrote:

..thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.

If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience




Once in a while a corrupt sector will contain a piece of a fragmented
file. Running checkdisk or equivalent a second time will repair this
and similar other possible problems, but the odds are low that you
really need it. (Oh, and if you have NTFS you probably do not need to.)

Many thanks for your help. I was surprised that Western Digital have no way
of checking their drives! Thanks for the advice on my PC's (NTFS) hard drive.


"Rick Merrill" wrote:

offwego wrote:
...will do.

I ran a defrag last night after my first Scandisk but will try the Scandisk
and defrag again if you think it's a good idea.

"Rick Merrill" wrote:

offwego wrote:
...just got a response from Western Digital. They can offer no way of
checking my external hard drive and if there is a fault there is no way of
fixing it, apparently! I ran 'scandisk' on my 'c' drive and picked up one
bad sector that was repaired.
You probably should run scandisk again, then if clean, run defrag.


"offwego" wrote:

..thanks for the posts. So I could use MS's 'check disk' utility for my 'c'
drive and the WD download DL suggests for my external hard drive?

I have asked WD in the past and I'm sure I can't run check disk for my ext HD.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

"offwego" wrote in message
...
I've got really fed up with Acronis True Image as software for backing up
my
data as it always seems to get corrupted. I thought I would try MS's
in-house facility but it takes ages. It takes all night!! Am I getting
something wrong or is this just what I have to put up with? Can I
schedule
it to run automatically?

Thanks.

If you have corruption on either of your drives Acronis will balk during the
backup or recovery. It fails when bad sectors are detected. Those same bad
sectors may be causing the backup program that is part of Windows XP to take
so long.

Check both your drives for errors.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience




Once in a while a corrupt sector will contain a piece of a fragmented
file. Running checkdisk or equivalent a second time will repair this
and similar other possible problems, but the odds are low that you
really need it. (Oh, and if you have NTFS you probably do not need to.)

offwego wrote:
Many thanks for your help. I was surprised that Western Digital have no way
of checking their drives! Thanks for the advice on my PC's (NTFS) hard drive.
....

I think you mean that WD does not distribute s/w for users. They do
check the drives upon manufacture (obviously) and mark some sectors
to be skipped.

offwego wrote:
Many thanks for your help. I was surprised that Western Digital have no way
of checking their drives! Thanks for the advice on my PC's (NTFS) hard drive.
....

I think you mean that WD does not distribute s/w for users. They do
check the drives upon manufacture (obviously) and mark some sectors
to be skipped.