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livinginspain
20th Jul 2003, 15:18
I am trying to organise a regular backup of my date. I use XP ( home edition ). A little research has turned up that MS have not included backup in the Home edition of XP. Any XP users have advice for me ?

Many thanks

Mac the Knife
20th Jul 2003, 15:33
Install Backup on Windows XP Home Edition
"Users of XP Home Edition that have tried to back up their systems may have been surprised to find that the Backup utility is not included in the default installation of Windows XP Home Edition. No Backup icon is present on the Start menu in Windows XP Home Edition, nor is Backup listed in Add Remove Programs for Windows XP Home edition. No mention of the utility is made anywhere during the installation, but it is included with Windows XP Home Edition. It's just necessary to do a manual install to prepare it for use.

To Manually Install the Backup Utility
Insert the CD Rom and navigate to CD-ROM Drive:\VALUEADD\MSFT\NTBACKUP

Double-click the Ntbackup.msi file to start the wizard that installs Backup

When the wizard is complete, click Finish."