Here's my situation. I'm running windows 7, 32-bit edition and it's a
recently installed version as well. I bought a 1.5 TB Toshiba Canvio
external hard drive, partly so that I could do regular drive image
backups. I am able to copy individual files and folders to the drive
with no problems. However, when I use Windows Backup to do a complete
backup it gets to a point where it seems like it's about to finish the
backup and then I get a semaphore timeout error and a message saying
that there was an error accessing the remote shared folder. I have seen
many people in online forums with this same problem but I never seem to
find a solution that either makes sense or one which applies to my
situation. The drive is not on a network; it's connected to the
computer's USB port directly. I've even called Microsoft's
accessibility helpdesk and I was advised to do a reinstall of the OS. I
would normally consider it except that I had already done this a month
before calling them to deal with some other corruption issues I was
having which are not related to this problem. Reinstalling the OS would
take around 3 hours, with additional time spent downloading the various
patches and updates to get the system up to speed. Again, I'd consider
it if I knew it would fix the problem but I just don't think that's
going to solve it. I'd appreciate any assistance or thoughts you might
have about how to solve this problem. I don't know which remote shared
folder it's referring to. If there are specific settings or properties
I should look into tweeking, I'm open to ideas.
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