unable to complete backup to pocket media drive

I have Windows VISTA Home Premium. When I run "back up files" to a pocket
media drive inserted into the computer's drive bay, it will run to it's about
50% complete, then I get a message that "backup was stopped." Prior to
running the backup, I disabled the antivirus and spyware. Can anyone help me
solve the problem? Thanks.

'Pocket media drive = thumb drive'? If so, thumb drive needs to be
formatted in NTFS to operate properly with Vista HP. Check and see if thumb
drive is formatted for FAT32; if so re-format to NTFS and you will be good
to go.

"raggmopp" <raggmopp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5F64CD57-A875-47D7-A9F7-EFFECE174792@microsoft.com...
>I have Windows VISTA Home Premium. When I run "back up files" to a pocket
> media drive inserted into the computer's drive bay, it will run to it's
> about
> 50% complete, then I get a message that "backup was stopped." Prior to
> running the backup, I disabled the antivirus and spyware. Can anyone help
> me
> solve the problem? Thanks.

Thanks for responding. No, I don't believe you'd call the pocket media drive
a thumb drive. It's a 500GB portable drive that fits into a bay in the front
of the CPU. Anyway, I kept trying yesterday and it finally said backup was
complete, but I don't know why it keeps doing this when I try to perform a
backup. I really shouldn't have to try a dozen times for it to work, but I
don't know what to do to correct the problem. The only thing HP told me was
to make sure I disabled the antivirus and spyware first, which I do. Thanks
for any help you can give me.

"Robert Hankins" wrote:

> 'Pocket media drive = thumb drive'? If so, thumb drive needs to be
> formatted in NTFS to operate properly with Vista HP. Check and see if thumb
> drive is formatted for FAT32; if so re-format to NTFS and you will be good
> to go.
>
> "raggmopp" <raggmopp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5F64CD57-A875-47D7-A9F7-EFFECE174792@microsoft.com...
> >I have Windows VISTA Home Premium. When I run "back up files" to a pocket
> > media drive inserted into the computer's drive bay, it will run to it's
> > about
> > 50% complete, then I get a message that "backup was stopped." Prior to
> > running the backup, I disabled the antivirus and spyware. Can anyone help
> > me
> > solve the problem? Thanks.
>
>
>