Backup hangs on "looking for backup devices"

[Jim]

I've successfully backed up my Pc, (to a file on the desktop) once
before. However now when I start backup it hangs on the
monlogue box "looking for backup devices" and goes no further.

I'm running XPHome and installed the backup from one ot the
sites noted in a previous post. As I said..it has worked, just not
now.

Any idea why this is happening and what needs be done to fix it?

 

[Jim]

I guess I'm just impatient. AFter about 10 minutes it proceeded to
the wizard screen. I do have an external drive with FAT32 file system
which doesn't work for backup (since the max file size is 4gb) and
maybe that's what it was trying to tell me when it spent so long
looking for devices.

Jim