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Have recently taken over management of a server that hangs every few days. It is a hard hang in that no keyboard or mouse interaction enacts a response, even as the server appears to still be running (fan noise, power LED, etc). Now, I've just started looking into it and here's what has caught...

If I understand the original post correctly, you are effectively trying to merge two folders. Is that right? You can do this with two xcopy commands, avoiding prompting. The first simply copies the 1st folder to a new folder and the second copies the 2nd folder over the first, replacing any...

[link technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx]Process Explorer[/url] is different to [link technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx]Process Monitor[/url] though also quite useful in its own right. Where Process Explorer focuses on files in real-time, Process Monitor...

Resolved!!! Thanks to everyone who has offered anything here. Every link and suggestion has been of some merit. Ultimately, it was BigBadBen's suggestion that led directly to the answer. I downloaded Process Monitor on the affected machine and a similar machine where ntbackup was working...

linney: Thanks for the links. I'm not inclined to do an in-place upgrade at this point. I did, however, download a fresh ntbackup.msi and install it. No dice. I did go through the various ntbackup subkeys in the registry and make changes to match them to that on a working system. Again, no...

OK, chkdsk (on boot) completed overnight and fixed a few orphaned index entries and security descriptors. Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive. Cleaning up 352 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9. Cleaning up 352 unused index entries from index $SDH...

Thanks for your post, goombawaho! You do some great work here and I appreciate your response. In spite of limited access to the machine at hand, I performed all the steps you laid out. I thank you for the reminder about SFC. Always a good thing to try. And MalwareByte is my new favorite...

I'm here because the thread I attempted to attach as a URL to this post provided the most information of near a hundred links I investigated to determine the problem at hand and it was recent. As per that thread, at least to begin with, ntbackup.exe fails whether run from the GUI or the command...