Norton Save & Restore 2.0 hangs while creating backup

 While running NS&R 2.0 to back up my c drive to an external drive connected via USB, entire system hangs when progress reaches 55%. The following error msg is in the NS&R log.  

 

5/24/2009 11:51:44 AM High Priority Warning: Result (0xece30066 33 NOTIFY_ERROR_EVENTLOG_OPEN_FAILED Args [0];) 0x800706B5 (Norton Save & Restore)
5/24/2009 11:51:44 AM Medium Priority Notice: Info 6C8F0428: Norton Save and Restore service stopped. 0x00 (Norton Save & Restore)

 

This started happening about 2 months ago and have been able to complete a backup since. 

 

I tried running NortonGhost 14/0 and got the same results. 

 

Any suggestions.