I am having trouble creating backups in Windows 7. This is on a Lenovoo T500 with a new 500GB SATA drive.
I initially successfully created a full system backup without a problem. I'm backing up SERVICE003 (some sort of preinstalled partition with no drive letter), c:\ (my main partition), d:\ (a special Lenovo partition) and f:\ (the remained of the 500GB drive). c:\ and f:\ are split because my system was initially on a 250 GB drive, and when I restored from an earlier backup to the 500GB drive I had to restore to the original partition size and couldn't extend it.
My scheduled backup last night did not occur. It hung the system when attempting to calculate the size of the backup (progress bar at 0%). When I say hung the system, I mean that the mouse moved and I could set the focus to some items on the desktop, but I couldn't click the start button, couldn't cancel the Ghost operation, couldn't use Control+Alt+Delete or Control+Shift+Escape. I had to do a hard reboot of the system, which I hate (since I've had issues with my copy of Windows becoming unbootable in the past when I've had to do that).
I also tried creating a backup of My Documents at one point which I expanded to include some project folders. Backup hung in a similar way trying to backup the first big project folder it hit. In that case, though, it failed when the backup was actually in progress (maybe about 20% on the progress bar). But the "crash" symptom was the same, if I remember correctly (had to do a hard reboot). I changed that backup to just backup the documents under my profile's Documents folder, and that seemed to work okay. That's been running every night without a problem. It does seem to take quite a long time to compare and calculate the amount of time it's going to take. That seems to take something like 10 or 15 minutes, and then takes about a minute to do the actual backup. I don't know if that's normal.
I did a full Windows disk scan (including sectors) in case there were any problems with the drive. It didn't detect any.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of hang? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
David