The OS is suppose to provide the same functionality. I hate to spend more on 3rd party software when This is very frustrating and now I have a useless 3TB drive that is unable to do backups b/c of the OS. I know this has to do with the fact that my Seagate HD is using Advance Formatted Disk andīy following the steps described in KB: the issue still continues. I am having the same issue as well with my 3TB Seagate (Seagate has stated to get with TS of Microsoft) and I have no issues doing the same backup on my 500G WD HD. This deficiency seems to apply across the board to different hardware manufacturers of external hard drives.įrom what I have heard, Western Digital may have a format utility that addresses this issue, but only for WD drives. The request could not be perfomed because of an I/O error.

All of the computers that qualified had the AF hotfix applied Advanced Format Drives 512e 4k, V istaĪnd 2008 - KB2470478, Windows 7, and 2008 R2 KB982018Įrror message: One of the backup files could not be created. It looks like the issue may be causes by a deficiency in Windows related to the Advanced Format drive spec. All of the systems are using the latest BIOS, firmware and OEM drivers as well. All operating systems are using the current Service Packs, and all of the MS Updates including all of the recommended harware drivers. The Windowsħ Ultimate, 32bit machine has SP1. I have tried Seagte USB and Hitachi USB drives. It occurs in 6 different computers I've tried. This occurs in Windows 7, 64 bit Professional, Windows 7, 32bit Ultimate, Windows Vista Business, 32 bit. Windows native backp fails to create an System Image, or a Complete PC Backup.

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