A back-up question...
XP Home Premium SP3 on an old but adequate Fujitsu as a second home pc.
(My own desktop is routinely backed up).
This 2nd pc did not come with the discs, and did not have MS back up pre-installed, but I found what appears to be an ok copy of back-up (ntbackup.msi) at winxptutor.com.
I downloaded it and used it on a pc that my uni-based children use. This pc used to be full of rubbish and did not need to be backed up. However, it now has "work" on it, as well as music and millions of photos that the kids want to back-up. (Apparently modern students do sometimes have to do work at uni, and this work is, I'm told, stuff that has to be kept)
So I used the MS back up, taking the "copy everything" option, and I now have a 39gb file on mybrand new Seagate 500gb "Expansion" hard drive.
Having backed up, my problem is that the only way to see what is in the backed up set of files is to look at them via the MS backup utility. If I go to My Computer, it sees the second, external hard drive, and I can see that there is a 39gb set of files in there, but I can't explore what is in those files in any way that I can find, unless I look via the backup utility.Of course, that severely limits my options.
Er, help!
Is there any way that I can "explore" and use these files?
In my main back-up of the main home pc, on a Maxtor device, it both backs up and allows full exploration use and copying of files on that drive.
Maybe I should just delete what is on the seagate drive and start again using something like the maxtor technology? (I know, they are the same co.)
Thanks in advance.
AO