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.  For the most part, 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.  Here is the exact text of the error.
Windows Backup encountered an error when accessing the remote shared 
folder. (0x8078015B)
Additional Information:
The semaphore timeout period has expired. (0x80070079)
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 which is free for users who are running 
accessibility software 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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