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Richard
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      09-28-2007
In working with Complete PC and wbadmin, I created a second volume to hold my
backups, drive E:. I made my first Complete PC backup to this drive
successfully. Now when I try to do another backup (which should be
incremental), drive E: is not shown as a valid target, even tho the backup
center in the control panel tells me my last back up was to drive E:. In
using wbadmin to try and start this incremental backup, wbadmin gives an
error and says the "location for backup is a critical volume". Now the only
other thing on this drive is the WinRE wim file and boot.sdi, which were
added after the first complete PC backup. I have tried renaming boot.sdi and
winre.wim but that did not help. I have found no info so far on what makes a
volume "critical" and how to work around this problem.
 
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jackmcguire99
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      09-30-2008

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I have exactly the same problem

First hard drive is partitioned into C and E partitions. Second har
drive has just one partition D

When I try a "files backup" I am presented with locations that includ
my D partition

However, when I try a "complete PC backup" the D partition is missing
If I select the E partition as a backup location and click next, Vist
tells me that it wants to backup both C and D partitions which it list
as system partitions

On using wbadmin I'm told that D is a "critical volume" and it won
backup the C partition onto the D partition.

I've formatted my D partition fully to no avail

Any help here would be appreciated

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