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Excuse the ignorance of a total newbie, but when I run the Backup wizard I
get as far as the Type, Destination and Name page and find that the "select
backup type" option is unselectable (grey) and the "place to save your
backup" is restricted to drive A. What gives?
 
| Excuse the ignorance of a total newbie, but when I run the Backup wizard I
| get as far as the Type, Destination and Name page and find that the
"select
| backup type" option is unselectable (grey) and the "place to save your
| backup" is restricted to drive A. What gives?


Decide Where to Store Your Backup Files:

"By default, Backup proposes saving everything to your floppy drive (drive
A). Although that might have made sense 10 years ago, it's hardly a rational
choice today. You'd need dozens, perhaps hundreds of floppy disks to store
even a modest collection of data files, especially if you collect digital
music or photos."

Instead, your best bet is to click Browse and choose any of the following
locations: (edited [ ])
•Your computer's hard disk.
•A Zip drive or other removable media. [You will need to have at least a CD
burner plus a third party burning program such as Roxio or Nero if you plan
on using a CD R/RW disk to burn to. Of course if you have a DVD burner then
a burning program will save to either a compatible CD or DVD disk.]
•A shared network drive.
•An external hard disk drive.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03july14.mspx
 
Touch Base said:
| Excuse the ignorance of a total newbie, but when I run the Backup wizard I
| get as far as the Type, Destination and Name page and find that the
"select
| backup type" option is unselectable (grey) and the "place to save your
| backup" is restricted to drive A. What gives?


Decide Where to Store Your Backup Files:

"By default, Backup proposes saving everything to your floppy drive (drive
A). Although that might have made sense 10 years ago, it's hardly a rational
choice today. You'd need dozens, perhaps hundreds of floppy disks to store
even a modest collection of data files, especially if you collect digital
music or photos."

Instead, your best bet is to click Browse and choose any of the following
locations: (edited [ ])
•Your computer's hard disk.
•A Zip drive or other removable media. [You will need to have at least a CD
burner plus a third party burning program such as Roxio or Nero if you plan
on using a CD R/RW disk to burn to. Of course if you have a DVD burner then
a burning program will save to either a compatible CD or DVD disk.]
•A shared network drive.
•An external hard disk drive.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03july14.mspx
Click to expand...
 
Sorry about that. I've used the browse option and gone to my dvd drive but
when I put a disc in it comes back with the message "D:\ is not accessible
Incorrect function" I am still concerned that I am not able to choose "select
backup type" option as all documentation says I should!
 
Aussie said:
Sorry about that. I've used the browse option and gone to my dvd drive
but when I put a disc in it comes back with the message "D:\ is not
accessible Incorrect function" I am still concerned that I am not able
to choose "select backup type" option as all documentation says I
should!
Click to expand...

You cannot back up directly to DVD using NTBackup. NTBackup was designed
for old NT systems using tape backup. While some people still use
NTBackup, a better choice is something like Acronis True Image which
can do imaging, cloning, and incremental backups. There are other
third-party back programs that work well, too. I just prefer Acronis.

Malke
 
OK. So I finally gave in and backed-up everything to a file on my c drive
then burnt this to a dvd. I find it irksome that Windows doesn't specify that
although your new computer might come with a dual layer dvd burner you can't
actually use the Windows program to bacyup to DVD (and it doesn't much like
CD-R either). On this point the Backup program is as clear as mud.
 
| Excuse the ignorance of a total newbie, but when I run the Backup wizard I
| get as far as the Type, Destination and Name page and find that the
"select
| backup type" option is unselectable (grey) and the "place to save your
| backup" is restricted to drive A. What gives?

What was I thinking - oops :-)
It cannot back up directly to CD or DVD. You have to back up to HD first and
then copy the file to CD/DVD.

The disadvantages using NTBackup makes it unsuitable as a backup tool.
It cannot back up directly to CD or DVD
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315255). You have to back up to HD first
and then copy the file to CD/DVD.

As Malke said: "a better choice is something like Acronis True Image which
can do imaging, cloning, and incremental backups."
 
I have the same problem. Is why I cannot get the SP2 update. I received
this Dell Dimension XP Pro sp1 two weeks ago from a friend via Office Depot.
There is no other option except A drive or floppy for backup the system! I
have the cd's but need to backup my documents of files, folders, pics, music.
I have Roxio cd burner on here but it is Basic 5 and only does music burning
cd's. It does not do date files! That is greyed out. What do I do? Just
not get sp2 I guess. It is still down there in the system tray after 2 weeks
lol.
 
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