Backup/Restore

[John Williams]

I backed up my WinXP Media 2005 system to a USB-connected 250G hard drive
using Windows Backup/Restore and had the following problems:

1. On completion I got a message that system could not be restored because
the system doesn't have a floppy drive - see online help. (I have been
unable to find any online help which addresses the problem.)

2. Backup backed up the C, D, and the backup drive. (I wish to exclude the
backup drive.)

In this day and age many if not most computers are sold without floppy
drives - including both of mine. I assume those computers have built-in
CD-readers which get activated on startup. So, there must be a way to put
the backup floppy stuff on a CD for use with Recovery. How do I set it up
and how do I exclude the BU disk from the BU?

John Williams

 

[DL]

Modern PC's may not have a floppy drive, but the NtBackup software you are
using was designed before most PC's had a cd drive.

If you want to backup the complete sys so that you can restore, use
dedicated Imaging/backup software, eg Acronis True Image being one

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I backed up my WinXP Media 2005 system to a USB-connected 250G hard
drive using Windows Backup/Restore and had the following problems:

1. On completion I got a message that system could not be restored
because the system doesn't have a floppy drive - see online help. (I have
been unable to find any online help which addresses the
problem.)
2. Backup backed up the C, D, and the backup drive. (I wish to
exclude the backup drive.)

In this day and age many if not most computers are sold without
floppy drives - including both of mine. I assume those computers
have built-in CD-readers which get activated on startup. So, there
must be a way to put the backup floppy stuff on a CD for use with
Recovery. How do I set it up and how do I exclude the BU disk from
the BU?

Yes - but in the 'day and age' in which the application you have chosen to
utilize to backup your system completely was created - Floppy Diskette
Drives were more than commonplace. 6 year old OS, 6 year old technology.
;-)

*2* is answered by reading the Help Files that come with NTBackup or doing a
google search. Just choose exactly what you want to backup...
http://www.theeldergeek.com/backup_using_wizard.htm
(Notice the "Let me choose what to backup" selection...)

*1* - is a show stopper. No floppy drive - then you cannot do a bare-metal
restore with NTBackup. It is a legacy application. It will not be improved
in the now legacy product. Although there are much better third party
alternatives out there. (Imaging products would probably be the best bet
for someone wanting to backup absolutely everything.) You could also go get
an inexpensive USB floppy drive.