Backing Up In Windows XP
 

Hello, please excuse me if I'm posting to an incorrect
group. Can anyone tell me how to do an old fashioned
full backup of my system? I'm using Windows XP and
Microsoft 2000 (?). I have looked everywhere I can find
to look and don't find anywhere to do this. Obviously I
am a novice and am looking for answers to basic
questions. Any help or direction would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks Janet

Backing Up In Windows XP
 

Installing the Backup Program on the Home Version
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/window...tm#backup_home

HOW TO: Use Backup to Back Up Files and Folders on Your Computer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx

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"Janet" wrote:

| Hello, please excuse me if I'm posting to an incorrect
| group. Can anyone tell me how to do an old fashioned
| full backup of my system? I'm using Windows XP and
| Microsoft 2000 (?). I have looked everywhere I can find
| to look and don't find anywhere to do this. Obviously I
| am a novice and am looking for answers to basic
| questions. Any help or direction would be greatly
| appreciated. Thanks Janet

Backing Up In Windows XP
 

Carey,

Thank you so much I will try to follow these instructions.

Janet
-----Original Message-----
Installing the Backup Program on the Home Version
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/window...s.htm#backup_h
ome

HOW TO: Use Backup to Back Up Files and Folders on Your
Computer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;308422&Product=winxp

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...rotect/default.
aspx

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"Janet" wrote:

| Hello, please excuse me if I'm posting to an incorrect
| group. Can anyone tell me how to do an old fashioned
| full backup of my system? I'm using Windows XP and
| Microsoft 2000 (?). I have looked everywhere I can
find
| to look and don't find anywhere to do this. Obviously
I
| am a novice and am looking for answers to basic
| questions. Any help or direction would be greatly
| appreciated. Thanks Janet
.

Backing Up In Windows XP
 

While the NT Backup is found on your XP disc or recovery disk in the
valueadd\msft\ntbackup folder you should know that backups made with NT
Backup can only be copied to your existing hard drive and you cannot copy
them with NT Backup to disk unless you make backups of 620MB or so. This is
impossible for a beginner or even most advanced users as you need to ensure
all components of a program are on the same disk. NT Backup does not have
disk spanning.(end the copying process on one disk and start on the next).
For a proper and complete backup of your entire system to discs for future
reinstall you will need a 3rd party software program like Ghost.

Backing Up In Windows XP
 

You need to use third party software for this. The Backup program that ships
with XP is not a good option at all. There are several decent programs. I
use Acronis TrueImage but have also used Norton Ghost, Drive Image and
BootIt NG. Do a search on google.

--

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


"Janet" wrote in message
...
Hello, please excuse me if I'm posting to an incorrect
group. Can anyone tell me how to do an old fashioned
full backup of my system? I'm using Windows XP and
Microsoft 2000 (?). I have looked everywhere I can find
to look and don't find anywhere to do this. Obviously I
am a novice and am looking for answers to basic
questions. Any help or direction would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks Janet

Backing Up In Windows XP
 

I suggest that you download a trial of BackUpMyPc,
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
and see if this is what you want before you buy.

"Janet" wrote in message
...
Hello, please excuse me if I'm posting to an incorrect
group. Can anyone tell me how to do an old fashioned
full backup of my system? I'm using Windows XP and
Microsoft 2000 (?). I have looked everywhere I can find
to look and don't find anywhere to do this. Obviously I
am a novice and am looking for answers to basic
questions. Any help or direction would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks Janet

Backing Up In Windows XP
 

The Unknown P wrote:
While the NT Backup is found on your XP disc or recovery disk in the
valueadd\msft\ntbackup folder you should know that backups made with NT
Backup can only be copied to your existing hard drive and you cannot copy
them with NT Backup to disk unless you make backups of 620MB or so. This is
impossible for a beginner or even most advanced users as you need to ensure
all components of a program are on the same disk. NT Backup does not have
disk spanning.(end the copying process on one disk and start on the next).
For a proper and complete backup of your entire system to discs for future
reinstall you will need a 3rd party software program like Ghost.


Or just copy your hard drive to a (larger) Maxtor USB 2.0 drive.

Backing Up In Windows XP
 

Wouldn't an easy way to backup your whole hard drive to be to use one of
those flash drives that plug into any USB port? Just curious

Backing Up In Windows XP
 

A flash drive that large would be pretty pricey.

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
"RB" wrote in message
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Wouldn't an easy way to backup your whole hard drive to be to use one of
those flash drives that plug into any USB port? Just curious

Backing Up In Windows XP
 

In ,
RB typed:

Wouldn't an easy way to backup your whole hard drive to be to
use one
of those flash drives that plug into any USB port? Just
curious


You can back up lots of data that way, but not the whole hard
drive. Even the biggest of these is much smaller than any hard
drive made today.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Backing Up In Windows XP
 

You can back up lots of data that way, but not the whole hard
drive. Even the biggest of these is much smaller than any hard
drive made today.

But, for about $250, you can pick up a 100 GB shirt-pocket-sized Seagate
portable hard drive that doesn't even require a separate power cable. It
can draw power from the USB 2.0 cable. I use it to ghost my my entire
drive and carry it offsite with me.

- Walter