I've just got my new pc the way I like it and decided to make a system image before I go any further.
Hooked up my Seagate hdd, selected it in Windows backup utility and set it to create a system image on it. After 10/15 mins I heard the drive go into idle mode and the image creation process stalled. I assumed it might be a power savings setting, so i went in there and set hardrives to never go to sleep and tried again - same result.
Each time, I was unable to exit the process and had to restart windows.
Next I decided to try creating the image on an internal drive to see if I get the same problem and nope, the 60gb backup image of my windows drive completed in about 2 minutes!
I then copied my 'windowsimagebackup' folder from my internal drive to my external. More freezing requiring me to exit the process which in turn killed the explorer.exe process!
Any ideas on what this could be. The ext drive seems to work ok aside from this?
Hooked up my Seagate hdd, selected it in Windows backup utility and set it to create a system image on it. After 10/15 mins I heard the drive go into idle mode and the image creation process stalled. I assumed it might be a power savings setting, so i went in there and set hardrives to never go to sleep and tried again - same result.
Each time, I was unable to exit the process and had to restart windows.
Next I decided to try creating the image on an internal drive to see if I get the same problem and nope, the 60gb backup image of my windows drive completed in about 2 minutes!
I then copied my 'windowsimagebackup' folder from my internal drive to my external. More freezing requiring me to exit the process which in turn killed the explorer.exe process!
Any ideas on what this could be. The ext drive seems to work ok aside from this?