Comments on: The amazing hidden backup program

By: proffitt

proffitt — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:54:06 +0000

I try to back up to an external harddrive but I get an error saying the files for the recovery diskette could not be created. The operation was aborted. What??

By: sudipta

sudipta — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:16:35 +0000

i have a dell labtop.windows xp home is restore in my labtop.but i format this labtop.what i do now.

By: kirky

kirky — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:21:46 +0000

Does the Windows XP backup utility back up emails for outlook? I selected “Let me choose what to back up” as described here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03july14.mspx
but it the My Computer was greyed out, so I couldn’t select my documents and settings folder.
The instructions and description in the web page described above suggest that it might be backing up the email, but it’s not really clear.

By: David

David — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 03:47:21 +0000

Is it possible to create the ASR recovery “diskette” on something other than a diskette? Perhaps a CD-R or a flash drive, or must the BIOS recognize the device?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 22 May 2006 21:24:57 +0000

Someone has created a free front-end for NTBackup that makes it a bit friendlier and improves on some things.

Enhanced Windows Backup
http://www.softswift.com/prod-windows-backup-software-ntbackup.htm

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:49:01 +0000

Paul, if your E: and F: drives are CD or DVD drives, then no, you can’t select them. You can only back up to a local hard disk, a network share, a tape drive, a floppy drive, or read-write removable media that looks like a floppy drive, such as a Zip drive.

By: Paul Boytinck

Paul Boytinck — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:51:27 +0000

Read “Windows XP Backup Made Easy” but when I tried to back up the My Documents folder, I was only given Drives G, H, I and J (but not E and F on the front of the PC!)as destinations. Also, if CD-RW discs cannot be used, what discs are O.K.?

General comment. What should be the simple process of saving Word .txt files in the My Documents folder is turning into a nightmare with Nero, Windows Backitup, and even EZbackiup (the latter now uninstalled). That was not the case with the old Iomega Zip files some years ago. What exactly is going on?

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

So there isn’t one on XP Pro?

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

It’s installed automatically with XP Pro.

By: Neil T.

Neil T. — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

So presumably those of us “blessed” with a recovery disk instead of the real XP CD won’t be able to install this then? Bummer.

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Yep, yet another reason to hate those recovery CDs.

The good news is you can copy the files off any Windows XP CD, if you can find one to borrow. No serial number required. Also, you can download the Ntbackup program from a number of third-party sites. I’ve updated the item with one reliable link.

By: BILL

BILL — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

you are lucky you have a recovery cd. I have a recovery partition.

By: Rob Eberhardt

Rob Eberhardt — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Change Windows XP Home to XP Pro