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Backup fails on Western Digital My Book Essential HDD

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I attempted to run a backup task to backup an image of my internal HDD to an external Western Digital My Book Essential 2 TB HDD connected via USB 2.0.

I continue to receive the following errors:
"Cannot register backup-place" Code: 36 (0x400024)

and:

"User-name or password for the remote resource N:\BackupPlace\ are wrong. Enter anew." Code: 1.015 (0x103F7)

(Original error messages are in German, these are my translations, but codes are correct.)

Backing up to other external drives works fine. Can anyone make sense of these error messages? What is the solution?

Formatting the WD external drive (NTFS) did not solve the problem.

Operating system: Win XP Professional SP3

Any advice is much appreciated.

Thanks, Peter

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It looks like your disk is a network resource. Is the disk really connected via UBS 2.0 to the computer that is backing up?

Can you disable any WD feature like virtual CD that may be turned on the disk?

Yes, connection is via USB 2.0. The "Western Digital My Book Essential" is an ordinary, portable external HDD: store.westerndigital.com/store/wdus/en_US/DisplayProductDetailsPage/categoryID.13093400/subCategory.54598100/parid.13092300/catid.13092800.

As for WD features: I am not aware of any hardware-based features that could interfere with backup. I have re-formatted the external HDD (NTFS). The HDD, i.e. the volumes on it appear completely normal. I can create, copy, delete files and directories. I can create back-up places with ATI. However, if I run back-up tasks, they fail with the error codes mentioned above.

Can anyone explain these error codes in this context?

Is there any chance that N: was previous a mounted disk in Windows?

What version of ATI do you have?

Pat L wrote:
Is there any chance that N: was previous a mounted disk in Windows?

I don't think so and I don't think this is the source of the problem. Here is what I tried: If the same task is executed with a file instead of a Backup-Store specified as back-up destination it appears to progress successfully. This means, leaving everything else equal, the specification of a Backup-Store instead of a file as destination seems to be the core problem. For some reason, ATI reports that it cannot log on to the external resource when the destination has been defined as a Backup-Store. If it is a file in the very same directory on the very same volume as the Backup-Store - no problem.

An entirely different HDD produced the same error, so this appaers after all to be an ATI-related problem rather than a HDD-problem.

So I still would like to use Backup-Stores - any clues?

Pat L wrote:
What version of ATI do you have?

ATI Home Version 10.0 (build 4.942)

Peter,

I looked at the user manual of v10 to try to understand what you mean by "backupstore" versus "file" as a destination. I couldnt' make sense of these words. Can you post screenshots of the screens where you select one versus the other so that we can map it to the English version?