XP Home Edition Backup

[Craig Duvall]

My wife's pc has XP Home Ed. while mine has XP Pro.
1. The XP Home Ed. did NOT come with a traditional backup
utility. Where can I find a compatible backup ? ?

2. Will/Is/Can this XP Home Ed. backup be compatible with
my XP Pro. backup/restore ? ? We would like to be able to
backup each other's PC.

Any help would be appreciate.

Craig
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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

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

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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

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| My wife's pc has XP Home Ed. while mine has XP Pro.
| 1. The XP Home Ed. did NOT come with a traditional backup
| utility. Where can I find a compatible backup ? ?
|
| 2. Will/Is/Can this XP Home Ed. backup be compatible with
| my XP Pro. backup/restore ? ? We would like to be able to
| backup each other's PC.
|
| Any help would be appreciate.
|
| Craig

 

[Alex Nichol]

My wife's pc has XP Home Ed. while mine has XP Pro.
1. The XP Home Ed. did NOT come with a traditional backup
utility. Where can I find a compatible backup ? ?

2. Will/Is/Can this XP Home Ed. backup be compatible with
my XP Pro. backup/restore ? ? We would like to be able to
backup each other's PC.

You can install the same program on a Home machine; if it is a retail
Home CD then look in Valueadd\Msft\backup for the ntbackup.msi r-click
and Install. Or there are locations posted every now and then in this
group from which it can be downloaded. The one thing it will not do is
make a Auto System Restore floppy as it will under Pro. And note that
it is a tape oriented program; to output to CD/DVD at all you need a
packet writing package like InCD, and at that it will not 'span' over a
set of disks, so it is really not suitable for using them as media