Hi,

I am trying to take system image backup on windows 8.1 with USB drive attached and I am getting the following error which is given at the end of the post. It always says the backup location is invalid.When I tried with -allCritical it fails with

I tried to wbadmin enable backup, that also fails with "Warning:  The ENABLE BACKUP command is not supported in this version of Windows. The operation ended before completion."

Can someone help with the wbadmin backup, please. It seems to be a red-herring.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:E: -include:c:
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Retrieving volume information...
This will back up OS(C:) to E:.
Do you want to start the backup operation?
[Y] Yes [N] No Y

ERROR - The specified backup location could not be found or is not a
supported backup storage location.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:E: -include:c: -allCritical -quiet
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Retrieving volume information...
This will back up ESP(EFI System Partition) (500.00 MB),OS(C:),(\\?\Volume{26a2e53d-6299-4ef1-a7e7-860f1e839ed6}\) to E:.
ERROR - The specified backup location could not be found or is not a
supported backup storage location.

• Edited by hikaushik Sunday, March 16, 2014 4:37 PM

Hi,
 
Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet forums.

I will try to involve someone familiar with this topic to further look at this issue. There might be some time delay. Appreciate your patience.

Regards,