I went from vista /lenovo. I had 2 things. Windows and R&r recovery on the same drive. factory recovery.
I erased the drive to zeroes. Installed windows 7. The window 7 install Created the Master boot record, a single partition,
and updated the MBR to make the drive bootable. I later installed R&R, which added It's boot files to the c drive, and
Updated the MBR to put its entry in. Now i have a c drive with 2 bootables, 1 partition. Default is to boot into windows. If i hit PF11, I boot into R&R standalone software.
Then when I told r&r to place the backups on my 2nd hard drive (not local), create rescue media made my 2nd drive bootable also.
If you take a blank (zeroed) drive. You must add a MBR record. Then you must format it, which will create a partition.
Within that partition, NTFS index entries are created. The disk is Now usable as a Storage disk. If some software comes along later, like R&r. create rescue media, boot files AND the MBR is updated so the BIOS will know it is a bootable drive.
The following links on WD web site show these steps:
(1) Initialize disk
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1018/related/1/session/L2F2LzEvdGltZS8xMzQ0NzMyMDY0L...
(2) partition and format disk
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3865/related/1/session/L2F2LzIvdGltZS8xMzQ0NzMyMzEyL...
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Your 1 tb looks fine from your screen shot.
GO into r&r, advanced view, set schedule and preferences, and Make sure your backup location is the 1tb. drive.
R&R wants to take a backup to a device you choose., the 1 TB. It wants to make it bootable, so it invokes the create rescue media software. This will copy the boot files needed, then will update the MBR. It creates a file called HDD.log in your Users, YOUR userid,APPDATA, local folder. Seems the error msg is showing up when it is getting ready to copy the boot files.
... Maybe a bug in R&R 4.3(32 bit). Try R&r 4.5(64 bit), requires microsoft MFC 2005. read the requirements page in previous posts. .
You running windows 7 32 bit or 64?
