Locking Partition C - The Request Is Not Supported
Please could you help?
I have Acronis True Image Home 2010 installed on a machine running Windows Vista. I am backing up to a NAS. I have managed to take a couple of manual backups and one full scheduled backup but now, my scheduled backup jobs fail after approx. 14 / 15 minutes each and every time and the log reads as follows:
Locking partition C....
The request is not supported.
Error occured while creating the file. (Click Browse to specify volume location, Retry to try again, or click Cancel.
Error occured while creating the file. (Click Browse to specify volume location, Retry to try again, or click Cancel.
Terminated By User
I don't understand why it says 'terminated by user' as I do not intervene at all. Can anyone shed any light on this please? What might be causing this? What can I do to begin troubleshooting?
Any suggestions are very much appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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Dmitry,
I'm having the same problem w TIB10 Eval and XP SP2.
I set archive splitting to 2G as you suggested above. It's too soon to light cigars, but initial results are encouraging. "Time Remaining" changed from idiotic numbers (43,000 days) to 18 minutes. So far so good.
Ed
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Dmitry!
Good news and bad news.
For the first time ever, thanks to your advice, I actually got TIB10 to save a backup copy.
Strangely, it refused to save to my external LaCie FW800 drive, and defaulted to saving to the boot drive. This is not good. I am aware that I have CRC errors in my RAID 0 boot drive. This is the whole reason I'm trying to get the data onto another drive in the first place.
I've attached a copy of my log file. Hopefully you can give me a clue as to what went wrong.
Thanks,
Ed
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Hello Ed,
Let me shed some light on the issue.
According to the log file, you have some serious error on the hard drive and you need to replace it or try to fix the errors by the means of chkdsk utility:
- Go to the Command Prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd)
- Enter the command: "chkdsk DISK: /r"
where DISK is the partition letter you need to check. Please note, that checking the C: drive may require you to reboot the machine.
You can also create a backup archive using sector-by-sector approach. In that case there shouldn't be such errors.
Additionally, could you please clarify what happened when you tried to point True Image to your LaCie drive as a backup destination?
We are looking forward to hearing back from you at your earliest convenience.
Thank you.
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Hi Ilya,
According to what I have read, and supported by my experience, CHKDSK is not effective on a striped array. My boot drive seems to be dying. I am trying to save what I can before if goes permanently. I'm trying to learn to use TIB10 at the same time.
Imaging the boot disk isn't working out. The disk error seems to be the main reason. Weird disk behavior has also occurred. Over a period of days there have been multiple backup failure types, too many for me to remember. At the moment I am trying to save the data only. So far so good. I will then try sector by sector and see what happens.
What I would LIKE to do is to use Disk Clone to copy the striped drives onto a single new bootable drive. I don't think that will work out because of the errors. How does sector by sector work? How is it different from "ignore bad sectors?"
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I could not tell why TIB would not use the external drive. The log indicated TIB could not FIND the external drive - that it did not exist. TIB defaulted to writing to the boot drive. Of course, the external drive was present.
Thanks,
Ed
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