Backing Up and Copying XP Files

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I'm by no means an XP expert ( Linux mostly) so this may be trivial. I have
frequent occassions where I have to copy and existing system to and external
USB drive. Mostly the "Documents and Settings" directory. I normally try to
drag and drop the directory, but somewhere in there, there are a couple of
nt(something) files that can't be copied because they're exclusively open or
something and the copy dies. Is there an easy way around this minor snafu?

Thanks in advance!

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Herb Stein
herb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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