Hello Fellow Vicug-l Listers:

My vaunted Dell Dimension 8300 just having undergone somewhat of a 
melt-down, and facing the prospect of not being able to buy any computer 
with XP pro after December 31st, I just purchased a Dell Vostro 410 with XP 
pro loaded. I noticed that XP pro has a "backup" feature, which is access 
from "accessories" / "system Tools". So, as I came so incredibly close to 
losing all my precious data, I decided to use the backup feature. I tried to 
save the backup to both my 250GB Seagate external drive and my 750GB Western 
Digital "My Book" external drive. In both cases, the backup was quickly 
haulted, saying that I had to save my backup file to "removable media". Now, 
XP pro obviously doesn't consider an external hard drive operating through a 
USB connection as "removable media". I understand, what with XP now getting 
to be somewhat long in the tooth, Bill Gates and the boys were doubtless 
thinking of tape storage devices and such when they incorporated this 
feature into the XP operating system. However, they can't seriously be 
expecting folks to create backups with one hundred CDs, or, say, a 
significant number of 16GB flash cards.

Does anyone know what XP pro might regard as "removable media"? I suppose I 
should just get a good backup imaging program, which would solve my problem; 
so, there's question number two; if anyone would care to suggest such a 
program; one which is "blind friendly".

Thanks in advance for any suggestions, ideas, thoughts, etc.

John


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