This post is for those people who have “Backup in Progress” message stuck in action centre even though no backup is in progress.
After my friend lost most of the data in a HDD crash, I decided it is time that I backed up my data. It was a bad idea. I put a DVD and started Windows Backup. I checked back in after 2 hours to see that backup was still in progress and it was going crazy slow. I was annoyed and I cancelled it. Ever since I have been getting the message – “Put in portable media” to continue backup. The message just won’t go and it was annoying. After a bit of research I came to know that you can reset the Backup by going into Task Scheduler and deleting the automatic backup schedule. It worked but the Action Centre got stuck on “Backup in Progress” message. Though not as annoying as “Put in portable media”, someone who likes their computer in perfect condition won’t be satisfied with just ignoring it. After a search in Google I came to know that lots and lots of people faced this problem and none of them have solved it. Yet. It was discouraging.
Then an idea hit me. I started Backup and Restore. Started backup and manually choose a single 10 mb file to backup. Problem solved. Backup completed in less than a minute and the “Backup in Progress” message was gone.
