Problem with hot processing temporary drive

I have installed Paragon B&R 10.0 free edition, and attempted to backup my drive. With Windows volume shadow copy service, I get an error message and it won't work. The VSS service is started. I tried stopping and restarting to no avail. I tried Paragon Hot Processing. There are no options available to select for the Hot Processing temporary drive. The backup attempt failed due to "unable to find temporary storage". Neither the C drive (NTFS) nor either of the two network storage drives are on the pick list for temp storage. I also have this program running on another computer, and all of the drives show up in the pick list for temp storage. On this computer, no dice. I have tried running Chkdsk, no errors, and that didn't solve the problem. How do I make a drive available for temporary storage?

 

edsouza
First of all, please try to re-install the program under Administrator account. Restart is required on compelte.
Note: to run as admin: right-click *.msi instalaltion and select 'Run As Administrator'

Then check if drives are available as temp destinations.

 

When I right click on the install program, it doesn't give me the option of installing as the administrator. I tried booting in safe mode so I could log on as the administrator, but then when I attempted to run the installation, it would not run, giving an error message saying that the administrator has set restrictions that do not allow this installation. Seems like I cannot install this as administrator. The user account I logged in on for the installation is set up as an administrator account with full priviledges.

 

I am running Windows XP Home on this computer. The other computers on which I have installed and successfully run the program are all running XP Professional. Could that be why I can't get this to work? Is there some setting in the registry that can be made to get around this?

 

If it an .msi installer - there isn't a Run as Admin option ( at least not for Vista/7 ).

You can open an admin command prompt and enter the path to the .msi installer .

I don't know about XP , but it's worth a try.

 

edsouza,

Please check if TMP and TEMP variables are accessible for Paragon products:
1) Create folder TEMP on C:/
2) Edit variables:
* right-click My Computer anв select Properties
* go to Advanced tab
* click 'Environment Variables' button
* in User variables, select each row and click Edit.
* change paths to C:\TEMP
* Click OK and Apply.