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I posted this before, but no solution yet.
this must be a serious Microsoft blunder, that something as simple as a backup, becomes impossible to do.
I have backed up my older computers hundereds of times. Now, Microsoft insists on users losing thier datsa by porhibiting use of the backup.
To repeat:
My XP Home computer will not let me do a backup.
There is never a screen that asks me to log on as administrator.
When i try to back up on my D drive (a combo dvd cd rw drive), its says its not allowed to be used.
When i try to backup to my E drive, (a CD rw drive), it says, something like "BAckup fle can not be used. Ensure valid path, and that you ahve valid access."
Do I have to logon as administrator to backup? If so, how do I logon as Administrator?
I am the only user of my computer. It never gives me a choice to be administator, so I guess I am administrator, but then backup questions this, saying, for me to make sure I ahve valid access.
I have looked thru help, but it doesnt finish the whole answer. It only talks in generalities, from what I can find in help.
Apparently, the backup utilty IS on my home XP edition, and on my computer. I can see it as a removeable program, in the add and remove sector.
But it refuses to let me use the CD dive to save my data. It wants me to use the A:, which will only hold, less than 1/15 of the data I need to backup.
Does it wnat me to put some administrato coded floopy disk in the A: drive, so it can approve me to do backups?
If so, it never asked me to make a A; drive floopy disk, to be an administrator.
Again, I am the only person using this computer, so I should the the administrator all the tiem anyway, and access to backup should not be blocked. But it is.
Does anyone know whay microsoft makde this so difficult to do such a simple thing as backup?
In my earlier replys, 7 of them, no one has been able to solve this problem with a specific answer that exactly allows one to do this process.. I don't want a puzzle, I just want to simply backup my data like I have done hundreds of times before, on previous computers.
One who gave info on this, but did not solve it, said that using backup would not be allowed with system restore, or something like that. What is that about? To use this backup, which can't be used, would lock up the system resotre feature of XP?
This must be a very HUGE Anoyance to XP customers that will cause them to tell others DONT BUY XP and DONT BUY A COMPUTER WITH XP!
IIF seven people, replying earlier cant slove this basic simple 2nd grade problem, think of the BADWILL Microsoft has created in the universe of users out there.
I cant believe Bill Gates knows about this. He would never have allowed this to occur. And would have fired the people that caoused ti to occur long ago.
this must be a serious Microsoft blunder, that something as simple as a backup, becomes impossible to do.
I have backed up my older computers hundereds of times. Now, Microsoft insists on users losing thier datsa by porhibiting use of the backup.
To repeat:
My XP Home computer will not let me do a backup.
There is never a screen that asks me to log on as administrator.
When i try to back up on my D drive (a combo dvd cd rw drive), its says its not allowed to be used.
When i try to backup to my E drive, (a CD rw drive), it says, something like "BAckup fle can not be used. Ensure valid path, and that you ahve valid access."
Do I have to logon as administrator to backup? If so, how do I logon as Administrator?
I am the only user of my computer. It never gives me a choice to be administator, so I guess I am administrator, but then backup questions this, saying, for me to make sure I ahve valid access.
I have looked thru help, but it doesnt finish the whole answer. It only talks in generalities, from what I can find in help.
Apparently, the backup utilty IS on my home XP edition, and on my computer. I can see it as a removeable program, in the add and remove sector.
But it refuses to let me use the CD dive to save my data. It wants me to use the A:, which will only hold, less than 1/15 of the data I need to backup.
Does it wnat me to put some administrato coded floopy disk in the A: drive, so it can approve me to do backups?
If so, it never asked me to make a A; drive floopy disk, to be an administrator.
Again, I am the only person using this computer, so I should the the administrator all the tiem anyway, and access to backup should not be blocked. But it is.
Does anyone know whay microsoft makde this so difficult to do such a simple thing as backup?
In my earlier replys, 7 of them, no one has been able to solve this problem with a specific answer that exactly allows one to do this process.. I don't want a puzzle, I just want to simply backup my data like I have done hundreds of times before, on previous computers.
One who gave info on this, but did not solve it, said that using backup would not be allowed with system restore, or something like that. What is that about? To use this backup, which can't be used, would lock up the system resotre feature of XP?
This must be a very HUGE Anoyance to XP customers that will cause them to tell others DONT BUY XP and DONT BUY A COMPUTER WITH XP!
IIF seven people, replying earlier cant slove this basic simple 2nd grade problem, think of the BADWILL Microsoft has created in the universe of users out there.
I cant believe Bill Gates knows about this. He would never have allowed this to occur. And would have fired the people that caoused ti to occur long ago.