I am not really sure why you should be having this problem. I routinely
use the Windows XP backup utility to backup to external USB hard disks.
The computer I am using right now is set to use the backup utility at
3am each morning. It does a full backup each Friday and differential
backups each Saturday through Thursday. Did you check out Windows help
about this, or Google technet with that error?
Frank Ventura
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Subject: [VICUG-L] What Does XP Pro Backup Expect by Way of Backup
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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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