I've got an old Dell XPS D333 stand alone running WinNT and I fear it's life it nearing the end. I would like to backup the contents of the 2 HDs on board. without USB support I'm stuck with a 100MB Zip as my only backup device so i've been looking into on- line backups. the few i've checked like Carbonite don't support NT. I can't believe there isn't one that does. I don't want to randomly search for one so I thought I'd stop here and see if anyone can suggest one. Hope you can help.

Is there some reason you can't install a CD-burner? There exceptionally cheap right now: http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?c... http://www.pacificgeek.com/showcate... That would at least be 700MB per disc you could backup instead of the 100MB for Zip...

I've got a ton of pics and MP3's. ideally what I would do is backup to an online site then using an external HD on my laptop, retrieve the files and then I have my backup.

Here's a page with a comparison of online services. May be worth a look, but you'd still pay more than for a CD-R. Plus your connection speed would dictate how quickly you could accomplish such... http://www.onlinebackupdeals.com/on... You could also (theoretically) e-mail the files to yourself from your NT machine to your laptop, again, dependent on your connection speed and the amount of e-mail your server would let you store at one given time...

Why not just connect the two computers and copy the data to your laptop that way? LIR

would to but I have no connectivity. NT doesn't support USB. I suppose I could use the serial port but not really sure what's involved. I'm sure I require some special software.

"I suppose I could use the serial port but not really sure what's involved. I'm sure I require some special software." Not really: http://compnetworking.about.com/od/... http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-...