Re: Looking for a way to use back up in Windows XP Home Edition
- From: "Rock" <rock@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:31:56 -0700
"BobLondonKy" wrote
Hello,
I am looking for a backup program. Something like what came with the
earlier Windows Editions Microsoft Backup. I have searched my Windows XP
Home Edition to no avale. Cannot find a backup program anywhere. I was
most certain that there should be some kind of back up program that I could
have some control over. Would anyone know of such a program? I have heard
that there is one on Windows XP Pro. I do not have XP Pro. What I have is
the recovery disks that come with a Hewlett Packard hp pavillion 521n. I
am hoping that someone can point in the right direction. Hopefully to
Microsoft Backup, or a free ware version. Is it possible to use the old
Windows 98 SE backup on XP Home?
Thank You Very Much,
Sincerely,
Bob,
London, Kentucky
There are several approaches. One is to use an imaging program. This makes an exact image of the partition which can be saved on CD/DVD or to another drive - internal or external. Imaging to an external USB 2.0 / Firewire drive works well. Then occasionally burning an image to DVD gives you redundancy. Restores can be done of the entire partition or individual files / folders. These work well and make it easy to recover from a drive crash. Examples of this are:
Norton Ghost 10
Acronis True Image
Terabyte Unlimited's Image for Windows
CasperXP
The second option is a traditional backup program such as Stompsoft's PC BackUP, Sonic's Backup MyPC or SecondCopy from www.centered.com. There are other backup programs out there as well. This can do a complete backup or backup individual files and folders to DVD/CD and other drives.
Next is ntbackup which is installed in XP Pro but not Home. For Home if you have the XP CD it can be found in the \MSFT\ValueADD\Ntbackup folder as ntbackup.msi or download it from here: http://www.onecomputerguy.com/windowsxp_tips.htm#backup_home
Ntbackup cannot backup to DVD and will only backup to CD if other 3rd party CD burning software is available and even with that it will not span CDs, i.e. one CD is the limit, which is not very practical. It is geared toward tape drives or other hard drives. It will work ok in backing up to an external hard drive (or network drive) and restoring individual files / folders is ok, but if you need to restore the complete drive it's cumbersome. XP must be installed first. If you have XP Pro, Ntbackup has an ASR feature (Automated System Recovery) which makes this restore of a boot/system drive easier but still it takes much longer than an imaging program, and I never got it to restore my system to full functionality as it was when the backup was made. It also mandates that a floppy drive be available. One floppy disk is created in the ASR process and there is no way around that. ASR is not available on XP Home addition.
Another is simply copying data files to a CD. Zip them up to make them smaller if you want.
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Rock [MVP Windows Shell/User]
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