Backup

[Clifford Carroll]

Have just completed Win XP full system restore from
manufacturer supplied optical discs. This was made
necessary by a Config Sys corruption preventing the
system from booting. Since I lost all my files in the
process, i was hoping to make a recovery disc, referred
to in Help as an "A S R" (Automated System Recovery)
disc. Help told me to go to System Tools and start the
Backup Wizard. There is no such wizard in XP. Indeed,
whenever I go to Microsoft for updates and patches, I am
sternly warned to backup the system before proceeding,
yet I can find no way to backup anything short of simply
dragging and dropping a folder to my CD-RW. This is
excessive and of little use in the event of a complete
system failure. Anybody out there know how to do backups
(and make an A S R disc) in XP?

Thanks!

[Harry Ohrn]

The Backup program that ships with XP (installed by default on XP Pro and
manually installed from the ValueAdd directory off the XP Home CD) does not
support writing to CD. To add to the problem the version of Backup that
ships with Home does not do ASR and even if it did you can not write to CD
anyway.

You will need to purchase a third party app such as Norton Ghost 2003
www.symantec.com , Drive Image 2002 www.powerquest.com , or even a low cost
alternative like Image http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image.html if you
want to burn a complete image of your system to CDs to be restored again if
you have a system crash.

--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell\User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"Clifford Carroll" > wrote in message
...
> Have just completed Win XP full system restore from
> manufacturer supplied optical discs. This was made
> necessary by a Config Sys corruption preventing the
> system from booting. Since I lost all my files in the
> process, i was hoping to make a recovery disc, referred
> to in Help as an "A S R" (Automated System Recovery)
> disc. Help told me to go to System Tools and start the
> Backup Wizard. There is no such wizard in XP. Indeed,
> whenever I go to Microsoft for updates and patches, I am
> sternly warned to backup the system before proceeding,
> yet I can find no way to backup anything short of simply
> dragging and dropping a folder to my CD-RW. This is
> excessive and of little use in the event of a complete
> system failure. Anybody out there know how to do backups
> (and make an A S R disc) in XP?
>
> Thanks!