Re: How to Backup? How to be Administrator? Still Locked out.
From: Mad Max (madmax1300_at_REMOVE)
Date: 02/17/04
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:01:44 -0600
Tall_Man;
The major part of your problem, as you said, is that you may not be an
Administrator on your own computer. I agree, as if you needed me to agree,
that MS has made XP unnecessarily difficult to use for the normal home user.
If you are using XP in its " Classic " style-------To see if you are an
" Administrator " --- In IE --Start>Settings>Control Panel----Scroll down to
" User Accounts" and double click on it.
It should then say whether you are an " Administrator ". If not , you should
be able to change the settings so you are. This will be password protected,
as opposed to a " Guest " account, which is not.
If this does not help, please post back in this string , so someone more
knowledgeable can assist you.
"Tall_Man" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:242E76F9-4A26-413D-881F-08E0F0A054B7@microsoft.com...
> I posted this before, but no solution yet.
> this must be a serious Microsoft blunder, that something as simple as a
backup, becomes impossible to do.
>
> I have backed up my older computers hundereds of times. Now, Microsoft
insists on users losing thier datsa by porhibiting use of the backup.
>
> To repeat:
>
> My XP Home computer will not let me do a backup.
>
> There is never a screen that asks me to log on as administrator.
>
> When i try to back up on my D drive (a combo dvd cd rw drive), its says
its not allowed to be used.
> When i try to backup to my E drive, (a CD rw drive), it says, something
like "BAckup fle can not be used. Ensure valid path, and that you ahve
valid access."
>
> Do I have to logon as administrator to backup? If so, how do I logon as
Administrator?
>
> I am the only user of my computer. It never gives me a choice to be
administator, so I guess I am administrator, but then backup questions this,
saying, for me to make sure I ahve valid access.
>
> I have looked thru help, but it doesnt finish the whole answer. It only
talks in generalities, from what I can find in help.
>
> Apparently, the backup utilty IS on my home XP edition, and on my
computer. I can see it as a removeable program, in the add and remove
sector.
>
> But it refuses to let me use the CD dive to save my data. It wants me to
use the A:, which will only hold, less than 1/15 of the data I need to
backup.
>
> Does it wnat me to put some administrato coded floopy disk in the A:
drive, so it can approve me to do backups?
>
> If so, it never asked me to make a A; drive floopy disk, to be an
administrator.
>
> Again, I am the only person using this computer, so I should the the
administrator all the tiem anyway, and access to backup should not be
blocked. But it is.
>
> Does anyone know whay microsoft makde this so difficult to do such a
simple thing as backup?
>
> In my earlier replys, 7 of them, no one has been able to solve this
problem with a specific answer that exactly allows one to do this process..
I don't want a puzzle, I just want to simply backup my data like I have done
hundreds of times before, on previous computers.
>
> One who gave info on this, but did not solve it, said that using backup
would not be allowed with system restore, or something like that. What is
that about? To use this backup, which can't be used, would lock up the
system resotre feature of XP?
>
> This must be a very HUGE Anoyance to XP customers that will cause them to
tell others DONT BUY XP and DONT BUY A COMPUTER WITH XP!
>
> IIF seven people, replying earlier cant slove this basic simple 2nd grade
problem, think of the BADWILL Microsoft has created in the universe of users
out there.
>
> I cant believe Bill Gates knows about this. He would never have allowed
this to occur. And would have fired the people that caoused ti to occur
long ago.
>
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