Backup for XP home

[Stephen Ford]

I need the Backup Utility for Widows Home edition. I understand Ntbackup.msi
is needed.

My notebook PC came with a DVD and I don't have a DVD drive yet. My other
CDs are for XP Professional. Is Ntbackup.msi available elsewhere or are
there other options?

 

[db]

seems kind of odd
that your pc "came"
with a dvd, but the
pc can't read it.

have you tried to
read that disk in
the drive provided?

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[JS]

Image Backup is the best solution
(Will create a complete image of your computers hard drive
and stores the "Image file" on the USB hard drive.)

First buy an external USB hard drive
Find one that includes an "external power supply"
as you do not want to rely on your laptops USB port
to supply power to the external drive.

Image Backup software
Norton Ghost version 14 - has a 30 day trial available
(Trial does not allow you to create a Bootable Restore CD AFAK)
http://www.symantec.com/norton/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost14
Product Review "Symantec's 14th Ghost":
http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Norton-Ghost--Review-78775.shtml

True Image 2009 - has a 15 day trial version available,
(Trial version can create a Restore/Rescue Media CD, but I have not verified
this yet)
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
User's Guide: http://us1.download.acronis.com/pdf/TrueImage12_ug.en.pdf

 

[Andrew McLaren]

I need the Backup Utility for Widows Home edition. I understand Ntbackup.msi
is needed.

Hi Stephen,

The NTBackup.msi package is only on the XP Home Edition media; XP Pro
doesn't have an MSI file (because NTBackup is just part of the normal XP
Pro installation).

If you can get access to another machine with a DVD drive, copy the MSI
file from the DVD to a USB key. Then put the USB key into your laptop
and copy the MSI to a scratch location on your laptop's hard drive.
Then, just double-click the file, to launch the installation process.

NTBackup.msi is about 793K - should fit on any removable media. SD or
MMC cards could also be used in place of a USB drive (if you have card
slots).

Hope it helps,

Andrew

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I need the Backup Utility for Widows Home edition. I understand Ntbackup.msi
is needed.

My notebook PC came with a DVD and I don't have a DVD drive yet. My other
CDs are for XP Professional. Is Ntbackup.msi available elsewhere or are
there other options?

Backup is installed automatically on XP Professional, but not on XP
Home. If you have the complete XP Home CD, find backup on the CD, in
\ValueAdd\MSFT\NTBACKUP and install it yourself by doubleclicking the
file ntbackup.msi.

If you don't have an XP CD, you can download ntbackup.msi at
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/software/ntbackup.msi Also see
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302894


Also let me point out that there are many third-party backup programs
available, and almost every one of them is considerably better and
more easily customizable than Windows Backup. I recommend using
Acronis True Image (my personal favorite, but there are other good
choices too) instead.

You might like to read this article on backup I wrote recently: "Back
Up Your Computer Regularly and Reliably" at
http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=314

 

[James P. H. Fuller]

seems kind of odd that your pc "came" with a dvd, but the
pc can't read it.

have you tried to read that disk in the drive provided?

Oh it's entirely typical for a notebook to come with no internal CD or DVD
drive. For a friend I recently reinstalled the broken sound driver on an HP
Mini, and while looking at the little pamphlet that came with it, read "...to
reinstall a hardware driver, place your system restore CD in an external USB
CD or DVD drive (that you purchase yourself.)"

A lot of notebook pcs are Really Little Things, clearly converging with
palmtops, and they aren't ever going to have an internal CD/DVD drive because
there isn't room. When the ad shows somebody watching Terminator IV on his
teeny-weeny notebook, just remember there's an external DVD drive somewhere
out of the picture that's reading the disk, and the external drive is
probably bigger and bulkier than the pc.

 

[db]

ok, thanks.

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DatabaseBen, Retired Professional
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- Accountancy
- Veteran of the Armed Forces
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