"Gazza" <Gazza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7496780B-2837-4E86-A93F-7C251D6B44E5@microsoft.com...
> This is quite amazing. After 5 months of using the in-built backup facility,
> Vista suddenly decides that it is not going to be helpful anymore. Everytime
> I attempt a backup I am getting a a 0x80070005 error. This is stupid. I have
> over 1Tb of storage available to me so I shouldn't be getting this error. I
> have also attempted to backup to another external drive and the same problem.
>
> Easy to solve I thought. I have spent the last 6 days on the Net trying to
> find a solution and there isn't one. I have chkdsk the drives, run utility
> programes and everything is saying the drives are ok.
>
> MS don't have an answer. Does anyone know what to do?

http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/pag...-problems.aspx

File Backup fails with the following error:
Access is denied. (0x80070005)

This error occurs because the recovery partition is enabled for File Backup or System Restore
and is almost full. To work around this, do not select D:\ as a backup source. Also, go to
System Protection in Control Panel and make sure that D:\ is not enabled for restore points.


-Michael