Unable to Backup Hard System

Hi All!,
I have a Thinkpad T42
Os: Windows XP Prof.
Rescue and RecoveryV3.10.0022.00. I recently update to this version of Rescue and Recovery from version 1.0
I tried to backup my hard drive, and although a status bar appears it remains at 0%. I also tried to backup data to a cd and the same thing occured. How can I solve this problem?

those messages indicate directory damage which should be repaired asap. any kind of strange sounds a drive makes indicate that it might be failing altogether. check its S.M.A.R.T status. start disk utility, select the drive (the model, not the drive name) and read off the S.M.A.R.T status at the bottom of the window. if it doesn't say "verified" the drive is failing and needs to be replaced asap. you'd be well advised to backup the data on the drive as soon as you can.
In the absence of the leopard install DVD you can try to repair the drive from Single User Mode.
Restart and hold command+S at the chime. Ablack screen with some white text will com up.
at the prompt enter
/sbin/fsck -fy
that's the repair drive command. wait for it to finish. if it reports any errors run it again till there are none. when done enter
reboot
Message was edited by: V.K.

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8.Type exit, and then press ENTER to close9. Continue istallation of Windows OS by using automatic partitioning scheme rather than creating partitions yourself. This worked for me in a similar situation. Hope will work for you as well. Best of Luck:-)

Unable to backup LR catalog

For some reason I am no longer able to backup my LR catalog. I have folders in two separate external hard drives but when I attempt backup I get a message: "Lightroom was unable to backup the catalog named Lightroom 4 Catalog. Please check folder permissions...." Could it be that the catalog has become too large as I have well over 200,000 images in it? I don't understand what "folder permissions" I need to check.

The most likely reason in my opinion is that you ran out of space on the drive where you do your catalog backups.
As you probably know, Lr writes a new backup file every time you do a backup; so with a catalog of 200,000 images that will - over time - add up to considerable space requirements.
In your OS (Mac Finder / Win Explorer) have a look at the drive where the backups are. Most likely you will se a whole list of backups. Delete the older ones (I usually delete everything older than a month because I don't see any use for older backups - but your requirements may be different) to create more space and try the backup again.

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