I don't know the answer to that but I was having similar problems and the procedure worked for me. It only takes a few minutes to try and does not upset anything else. Good Luck with it.

My problem also returned after a few days. Finally fixed by paying particular attention to the home network set up. After doing all the settings as listed and properly setting up the home network...

Got that.

Thanks a lot

Thanks for that explanation.

Still a little confused. I investigated a little further after your reply.

I did the first back up using back up and restore ( windows 7) which appears to have...

That answers the space question.

I am backing up to a new seagate 1tb external drive. I mainly want to back up file history, which is turned on, but I think it is also doing a system image back up as a default. Taken about 4 hours...

Problem has baffled us for days. This was a quick simple fix that worked just fine:)



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