Backing Up Files to a External Hard Drive

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Ralph Prince

I am a novice user with a Compaq 8401 Computer w/Windows
XP Home Edition. I bought and installed a Western Digital
80GB External Hard Drive to back-up my internal 100GB
hard drive.
The problem is that I do not know how to use Windows to
back-up all files and programs (except those which can be
recovered by running System Restore) to my new external
drive.
Is there a step by step tutorial a NOVICE can sucessfully
use to accomplish the task? If so, how do I access it?

If not, can anyone out there assist me? I have never
tried to access help here, so I do not know if my request
is appropriate.

Thank You, Ralph
 
Ralph Prince said:
I am a novice user with a Compaq 8401 Computer w/Windows
XP Home Edition. I bought and installed a Western Digital
80GB External Hard Drive to back-up my internal 100GB
hard drive.
The problem is that I do not know how to use Windows to
back-up all files and programs (except those which can be
recovered by running System Restore) to my new external
drive.
Is there a step by step tutorial a NOVICE can sucessfully
use to accomplish the task? If so, how do I access it?

If not, can anyone out there assist me? I have never
tried to access help here, so I do not know if my request
is appropriate.

Thank You, Ralph
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You need either an image or a backup application that supports your external
hard drive. Windows XP Profession and retail Home {not all OEM} has a backup
application. However, I am not sure that backup to an external drive is
supported. If not, you need to backup to an internal drive and copy the
backup file to the external drive.

I suggest you consider a image program such and PowerQuest Drive Image or
Norton Ghost or other. Check first with the publisher to ensure that your
drive is supported.

Don
 
Ralph said:
I am a novice user with a Compaq 8401 Computer w/Windows
XP Home Edition. I bought and installed a Western Digital
80GB External Hard Drive to back-up my internal 100GB
hard drive.
The problem is that I do not know how to use Windows to
back-up all files and programs (except those which can be
recovered by running System Restore) to my new external
drive.
Is there a step by step tutorial a NOVICE can sucessfully
use to accomplish the task? If so, how do I access it?

If not, can anyone out there assist me? I have never
tried to access help here, so I do not know if my request
is appropriate.

Thank You, Ralph
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Ghost 2003, check out this link for a full manual/instructions

http://ghost.radified.com
 
Ralph said:
I am a novice user with a Compaq 8401 Computer w/Windows
XP Home Edition. I bought and installed a Western Digital
80GB External Hard Drive to back-up my internal 100GB
hard drive.
The problem is that I do not know how to use Windows to
back-up all files and programs (except those which can be
recovered by running System Restore) to my new external
drive.
Is there a step by step tutorial a NOVICE can sucessfully
use to accomplish the task? If so, how do I access it?

If not, can anyone out there assist me? I have never
tried to access help here, so I do not know if my request
is appropriate.

Thank You, Ralph
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Ralph,

I'm assuming you got the 80 gb disk working, and that it's got a drive
letter that you can determine, e.g. f: or something.

On f:, create a folder called \backup.

With the XP backup utility, just direct the output of the abckup to
f:\backup (or whatever the drive letter and folder name is.).

Read the Backup program's Help file, and general Windows Help on backup.
 
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