Help With Win7 Backup

[727driver]

Hopefully someone here has an answer. I am running Win7 Ultimate in Bootcamp and split the 500GB HDD in half. I have a 500GB WD USB Passport drive to save the backups on. Everytime I run the backup routine Windows returns an error saying it can't create the .zip file and that I need a minimum of 400MB free. I have 70GB free on the Windows drive and 220GB free on the MAC side. I have tried the backup several times with the same error each time. The Passport drive is empty.

Thanks

 

[balamw]

The Passport drive is empty.

If it's formatted HFS+ so Time Machine can use it for its backup it can't be written to (read-only) in Windows without third party drivers.

Either split your backup drive too or get a third party driver like MacDrive. (I remain fearful of the drivers as data loss is entirely possible).

B