Hey KTTD, as long as you are on, You assured me you wouldn't delete the post by yesyeah [64 posts] I was waiting to see if the fix worked. Now it's gone.

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XpUser: I have the lastest update CD from MS, but saw no options for installing NTBackup. Unless it was included with the big rollup of updates on the CD and not mentioned. Solarian

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XpUser: I misread upgrade (in your post) for update. My mistake. Solarian

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Per, He said it was fixed in the post and trust me, folks never, ever get back to you when things work. That is a fact of life. KTTD Though I walk through the valley of Microsoft, I shall fear no OS for skills are with me

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Ok KTTD. I didn't see the fixed post. I realize what you are saying but this guy seemed to be the exception. Thanks for responding.

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Hey KTTD - I was in my room before you told me to go there :-)

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KTTD that post per was on could have helped somebody else with a similar problem. I did not see the "it got fixed post" either. Trust... trust no one. Iligitimi non carborundum est

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On an earlier posting, some-one said that The MS Windows Backup Utility (NT backup?) would backup to a CD or DVD. I can backup to my removable HD, but get an "Invalid Path" error message when trying to use DVD as the backup medium. What am I doing wrong? Ted.

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Stuart, As an FYI, TheElderGreeks (http://www.theeldergeek.com/protecting_the_system.htm) explained why NTBackup is not installed by default in Windows Home Edition. Excerpt: "Windows XP Home Edition does not support Automated System Recovery (ASR). I've been told this is why NTBackup is not installed by default in Home, but if that's the case why include the item on the Home CD in the value-added directory. Whatever the reason, it's something you need to be aware of in spite of the option for ASR appearing in NTBackup when installed on a XP Home machine. XP Pro users are good to go with ASR" This is probably another reason why XP Home Edition is often thought to be the crippled sister of XP Pro. _____________________________________________ ted, "On an earlier posting, some-one said that The MS Windows Backup Utility (NT backup?) would backup to a CD or DVD. I can backup to my removable HD, but get an "Invalid Path" error message when trying to use DVD as the backup medium. What am I doing wrong? " You weren't doing wrong. Whoever said this has misspoken without knowing the facts. Unfortunately, Windows Removable Storage Management does not recognize CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD-R devices as backup pool media, even though you can add these media types in Removable Storage Management. Ntbackup.exe therefore does not support backup to these devices. This behavior is by design according to this MSKB: Windows Backup Does Not Back Up to CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD-R Devices http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q315255 Apart from using alternative backup programs that do support direct backups to CD-R and CD-RW, External hard drives is the ideal media to go with NTBackup.

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P.S.: For a graphical walkthrough of the Advanced Mode from NTBackup for users that want to see the program before committing to installing it on their machine, go here XP Backup Using NTBackup Advanced Mode http://www.theeldergeek.com/backup_using_advanced_mode.htm

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Hi, XPUser. "Windows Backup Does Not Back Up to CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD-R Devices". Okay, I suspected as much. Thanks very much for the confirmation.

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Very very helpful - will save time and money. Thanks for posting. KJ

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