I can't backup my laptop using an external hard drive.?

Question

I have a dell xps m1210 laptop with windows vista home basic and i want to backup my hard drive with an external hard drive. I have seagate 500gb. Whenever I try to back it up it would say that "Disc C has errors. You must check the disk for errors before it can be restored" So i click Check the disk for errors, but when I click it it says "Windows can't check the disk while its in use". So how do I go about this?

Answer 1

'Check your hard disk for errors'

procedure below,

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/bc1393cf-9f9c-79c7-0f91-9337c2c41f811033.mspx



all the best on that

Answer 2

Do this on the two laptops: Go to "My Computer." Right click the "Local Disk C:" then click properties. Read where it says used space. With this information you can then figure out how big of an external hard drive you need. I recommend you use Acronis True Image.

Answer 3

Unplug it and restart your computer. It sounds like you have something reading or writing a file to the external. If this doesnt work, try testing the drive on another computer (maybe you have a faulty one?)

Answer 4

i 2nd webbrat3 also u may wanna scan ur computer for virusses. they cause jsut about anything these days. even strange annoying things.

Answer 5

Get Fedora and use rsync,

"it just works..."