Windows 7 Backup takes about 5 hours to complete.Each schedule also takes about the same time and occupies a lot of space on my USB external drive.After 3 backups I have run out of space. I am only making 1 image backup.Incremental backups are not taking place, each seems to be a full backup.I have seen a long discussion thread on this topic but no agreed solution.Will Windows 7 be updated soon to fix this problem?Colin.

Hi Colin,You must check the box before "Include a system image of drives(C:)" whensetting upthe backup. See the third photo here.Setup again and do not check the box.Currently, you can make only 1 image backup manually, and schedule yourgeneralbackup with longer span like one month. In addition, system restore can be of help if anything happens during such span.

Hi Colin,Can you please give more qualntified data about the problem.1) How much data you are backing up?2) What are the configuration options?3) How much space it has occupied on the target volume?4) Can you check on the target -> which files are getting backed up every time?Only first backup is a full backup and subsequent backups are incremental backups.This posting is provided "AS IS" without warranties and confers no rights.

Yes. Win7 H.P. has a full system backup utility. No to Flash Drive (in most cases). That process takes forever. Get yourself an External Hard Drive, about 500 GB. They are cheap! About $80.00 USD. Or do as I have done and put a second Internal HDD in your case. I backup 30 GB of data in about 20 minutes.However long it takes, of course depends on the amount of data on your HDD. I keep only my system and installed programs on C:Drive. All other media goes to my 3rd hard drive, movies, music etc. and that is also an Internall HDD.Best of luck. Speed is simply better with 2 Internal HDDs.