After running my first backup now 3 times and overtime I have received this error and a backup file was not written.
Error EC8F17B7: Cannot create recovery points for job: My Computer Backup. Error E7D1001F: Unable to write to file. Error EBAB03F1: The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation. Error E7D1001F: Unable to write to file. Details: Source: Norton Ghost
I have reinstalled the software finally with out any errors but I am unable to backup my files to a USB external hard drive.
Could this be because the drive has compress checked and/or permissions. I had to add my user account (admin) to Norton Sercurity configuration tool. Does the target drive have to match exactly. The drive just has "administrators" listed as a group.
Thanks for the update. So you followed step 7 in the link you referenced?
Does your normal user account have full Admin rights? Also, please make sure on the backup drive you have your user account listed specifically with full Admin rights.
I added my account NTFS permissions (with Full control) to the drive like I had to do in the Security Configuration Tool under Start/All Programs/ Norton Ghost/ , even though the drive already had the "Administrators" group added to it. I would have to guess that both places have to have identical NTFS permissions for this to work. (they are both Identical now)
I also, unchecked the "compress content to save disk space" under the Advanced Attributes button for the Properties of the drive, for the backup destination folder. ( I don't think that had anything to do with the trouble.)
Then I ran a backup which completed correctly.
I believe it was the NTFS rights to the drive. There is now a Norton Backup folder with symantec image files, symantec recovery environment file, along with a sub folder called "file backup data" with multiple sub folders containing .fbf files.
After running my first backup now 3 times and overtime I have received this error and a backup file was not written.
Error EC8F17B7: Cannot create recovery points for job: My Computer Backup. Error E7D1001F: Unable to write to file. Error EBAB03F1: The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation. Error E7D1001F: Unable to write to file. Details: Source: Norton Ghost
I have reinstalled the software finally with out any errors but I am unable to backup my files to a USB external hard drive.