I am including instructions below that one customer used to fix this.I have
not tried this myself so I cannot guarantee it will work.
"Head into Disk Management and set your Active Partition to your primary
Windows partition and not the EISA partition. You will then have to reboot
your PC, have your Windows Vista DVD available. Attempting to boot normally
will display the error that 'bootmgr' cannot be found. Boot to the Windows
Vista DVD and start the Recovery tool, the Recovery tool will find an error,
correct it and ask you to reboot. After rebooting you should be able to see
Windows Vista in the list of installed operating system in the Recovery
tool's OS list. Select Windows Vista and then click on the Repair Startup
item. The Recovery tool will then detect a problem with 'bootmgr' and will
reinstall it. Reboot the system and Windows Vista will start normally."
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"Jalil" <Jalil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have the same problem and the same error message when I try to backup
>using
> a USB Desktop Hard Drive (IOMEGA with 500 GB capacity). My labtop is DELL
> Latitude D820 which I bought recently. Originally the Labtop came with "XP
> Professional" pre-installed. The vender installed Vista on top of XP, I
> mean
> he replaces XP totally with Vista (i.e. I have one operating system only.
> No
> XP anymore). I hope the above info will help in detecting the reason for
> the
> problem. Please help as I need to backup my files.
>
> "Jill Zoeller [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>> Yes, the problem occurs because your OEM partition is marked as Active.
>> This
>> isn't a supported configuration and we're not sure how this is
>> happening--whether the OEM does this or if something happens during Vista
>> installation. Can you tell me if this was a clean install or upgrade and
>> the
>> manufacturer of your computer?
>>
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>> "Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F6238E35-CD42-40A0-91BA-710CCECC1E85@microsoft.com...
>> > Any news on this problem? I have been getting the same error.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > "Jill Zoeller [MSFT]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Will each of you who has hit this problem send me an email? Subtract
>> >> the
>> >> "online" from my address. I would like to get some screenshots from
>> >> you
>> >> and
>> >> it would be easier to do this through email.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Jeffrey Kohler" <JeffreyKohler@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> >> message
>> >> news:56919124-E914-4938-84A4-9E2FBE9B3531@microsoft.com...
>> >> > I'm attempting to use the "Backup and Restore Center" to back up my
>> >> > computer.
>> >> > However, whenever I click "Back up computer" I get the following
>> >> > error
>> >> > message:
>> >> >
>> >> > "Windows could not find backup devices on your computer. The
>> >> > following
>> >> > information might explain why this problem occurred:
>> >> >
>> >> > Incorrect function. (0x80070001)
>> >> >
>> >> > Please close the backup application and try again."
>> >> >
>> >> > I do have a DVD RW drive.
>> >> >
>> >> > Any suggestions?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
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