Win 7 Backup fails with 0x8007007b

When I do a backup under Win 7 and only select image backup it works fine. If I select any file or folder on C: or any partition on my USB drive the backup fails with error 0x8007007B. Any suggestions?

You might try setting your backup configuration to the defaults ...
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...ion.html?ltr=B

I also found mention of concerns if the drive wasn't formatted as NTFS. And mention of problems if Windows boot manager was not the boot manager being used. Read that Windows 7 must be the active boot partition. .... So, if any of these may be an issue in your computer please mention them.

I followed the information in the link you provided and used RegEdit to change the registry and then tried to do a folder backup. I got the same error.

Any other suggestions?

Did you reboot after the changes?

Also is your drive formatted NTFS and are you booting to W7 via the standard Windows Boot Manager?

No I didn't reboot. There was no mention of a reboot in the instructions you directed me too. Do I have to refollow the procedure, reboot and then try backing up?

yep - the drive is NTFS

The drive is a dual boot XP & Win 7. Win 7 automatically setup the boot manager so I presume it is standard. I didn't install a 3rd party boot manager.

After making registry changes I always reboot. I don't know if it will make a difference in this case but it sure won't hurt to try it.
NO, you should not have to redo the changes to the registry. Simply reboot and retry.

I haven't experienced this issue personally, I simply searched for that error message, so if that doesn't work hopefully someone else will have some ideas.

I suspect the most common recommendation you will get here is not to use windows back-up at all, instead try Macrium Reflect. Find a link HERE on our recommended freeware page.

Hmm - isn't Macrium Reflect just disk imaging backup? Win 7 backup does that successfully at the moment - the imaging works fine. I am looking for files/folders backup solution. Most of my files don't change much so I can tolerate a weekly incremental backup for them. I have some very active project folders that I want to incrementally backup every afternoon & night. NTbackup from XP seems to run fine under Win 7. However, I would prefer to use the tools built into the WIN 7 OS. There has to be an answer somewhere. Got any ideas where I might post a message? I posted a message in the MS Backup – Windows and Windows Server forum but no luck so far

I guess my question would be, how do you use Windows Back-up to ONLY back up a folder 6 days a week and have it do a full back-up the other day. As far as I can see it's purpose is to back up everything selected and run that on a schedule. By default it picks what to back-up but you can specify extra files & folders. If you unselect all the system default files then when it writes this back-up, what you want to be an incremental back-up may wipe out your full back-up, plus you then have to go set it back up once a week for a full back-up.

This is not what it was designed to do; it is meant to perform unattended back-ups of all the selected files. I see no options in Windows Back-up to do Incremental Back-ups and no way to say back up only these files 6 days a week and back up everything on Sunday. I'm not saying it can't be done but to my knowledge it isn't how it was designed.

This means, using it as I understand it was intended, doing a full back-up. Macrium also does full back-ups, but, from what I have heard, a lot faster. There are at least a couple Macrium Reflect supporters here; hopefully they can offer more in-site on that product. For me I am satisfied with a weekly Windows Back-up while I'm asleep.

To me it sounds like you are trying to make it do something it was never intended to do and I have no idea who you could ask to help.

The same way I do it using NTbackup on XP. Schedule backups for 6 folders twice a daily and seperately schedule an image back up weekly. It is my understanding the backup software in Win 7 is intelligent enough -- usually -- to do incremental backups after the first one is done. Call me old school - but the Win 7 backup software sucks compared to classic NTbackup

This machine is an IBM with an OEM drive which steals a small partition for an installation copy of XP. It looks like Backup under Win 7 cannot handle this situation resulting in the error. What a shame!