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A friend attempts to do a "back up" (can't say specifically what type)
in XP Premium, and receives...

"can't find the file 0x80070002"

What is this telling him? How can he overcome it?

That's a Hexadecimal error code, Computers can use a counting
system that uses Zero-to-Nine, Letters A-to-F. The 0x indicates
the Hexadecimal numbering system. The succeeding numbers are
the actual error code returned by the either the program or the OS.
Without knowing what returned the error code, it's impossible to
say what the error code conveys. If he is using NTBackup then it
might be possible to cross reference the code and find out what
the error means.

<dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
news:eiJBq5hiIHA.4076@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>A friend attempts to do a "back up" (can't say specifically what type)
> in XP Premium, and receives...
>
> "can't find the file 0x80070002"
>
> What is this telling him? How can he overcome it?

<dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
news:eiJBq5hiIHA.4076@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>A friend attempts to do a "back up" (can't say specifically what type)
> in XP Premium, and receives...
>
> "can't find the file 0x80070002"
>
> What is this telling him? How can he overcome it?


This thead in the link below relates to that message in Vista, as a result
of a deleted user account.

There is no XP version called Premium, but there is a version of Vista
called Home Premium.

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/...iling--0x.aspx

Note that in the backup utility in XP Home versions, he may actually be
offered the chance to do a full backup with ASR. The problem with this is
that that function isn't supported in Home, and will fail. This option
shouldn't even be in the UI for ntbackup in Home versions, but apparently it
is. And of course it requires a floppy disk even if you have an XP
version that does support it.


HTH
-pk