Backup-hard drive not visible

[XD]

I am trying to use backup in RC1 but only 1 of my HD's is visible.I clicked
on the link in the program that says why dont i see my hard drive,it brings
up a help window,but nothing in that window has to do with the hard drive
not being visible.Any ideas?

 

[Troy McClure]

heres an idea...

tell us what kind of drives you have and how theyre attached

 

[XD]

I have 2 IDE drives,C and D,internal,nothing complicated.I just want to back
up to C and only D,where vista is installed,shows.

 

[Troy McClure]

you wont be able to back up a drive and store it on the same drive... thats
probably what youre doing.

in other words, you cant backup c and d and store it on d

 

[XD]

There is nothing on the drive I want to back up to,its totally empty.Its the
only reason i put it in the system is to back up to it.Maybe its just RC1's
backup doesnt work right or something.

 

[Troy McClure]

if youre backing up ONLY the c drive, and saving it on the d drive, it
should work... as long as D is a separate PHYSICAL drive, and not just a
partition on the C drive

 

[XD]

Yep,separate drives.No idea why it wont work,just my bad luck i guess.I am
running RC1 which seems to have a lot of bugs,I just ended up dragging and
dropping the folders i wanted to back up onto the drive manually.I would
like to have the scheduling features,etc but oh well,i can just do it once
every few days by hand i guess. Thanks for all your help.

 

[Troy McClure]

you have to get rid of rc1 in the first place. its not even worth playing
with anymore

 

[XD]

I know,I missed the RC2 download I just have to wait to buy the final
release in a few weeks i guess.

 

[Guest]

I'm using backup on rc2. I have one physical drive with 3 partitions on it.
I have rc2 installed to my c: partition and I do backups to my d: partition.
both partitions being on the same physical drive does not seem to cause any
problems. I even have and 1.5GB e: boot partition w/bitlocker enabled. I'm
totally pleased with how this configuration performs.

 

[MICHAEL]

Are you trying to do a CompletePC Backup?

The drive you are backing up to has to be formatted
NTFS and not FAT32. Check it and see.

-Michael

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It may have to be on a different controller to be detected properly for the
backup program.

 

[Troy McClure]

yes, but you couldnt backup D to D... that was my point