topic Re: XP Home Backup in PCs & Accessories

XP Home Backup

fraheato — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:44:25 GMT

My Vaio doesn't have Backup listed in System Tools and I only have the discs I made when initially setting up the laptop.

Can anyone please advise how I go about backing up files & settings to a USB stick? I regularly save favourites, Roboform settings, documents and images. Would also like to backup Address book, and wondered what else others consider necessary to backup.

If the PC crashed I wouldn't like to have to start again from fresh. Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Frankie

Re: XP Home Backup

kee-lo_ — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:43:58 GMT

Hi Frankie,

The backup tool you speak of is actually on the recovery DVD in the i386/valueadd/ folder

Re: XP Home Backup

fraheato — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:18:50 GMT

Hello Kee Lo
Thanks for such a speedy reply.
I loaded Recovery Disc 1 but couldn't see the 1386 added file, could it be called something else?
When I tried to load Disc 2, a dialogue box appeared stating if I want to install to switch off the PC and restart.
As I don't want to do a full reinstallation, decided not to go ahead.
My Viao is PCG-K315M.
Wondered whether you could advise anything else.
Thanks very much
Frankie

Re: XP Home Backup

kee-lo_ — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:28:20 GMT

I think it's on disk 2, you press cancel on that if you can
Or hold down the shift key when you put the CD in your drive then explore the disk.

Re: XP Home Backup

fraheato — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:09:33 GMT

Thanks Kee Lo

Unfortunately holding down the Shift key while inserting the DVD doesn't seem to make any difference.

It looks like I'll have to buy a programme to do it, do you have any suggestions re the best one?

Thanks you

Frankie

Re: XP Home Backup

gfaelli — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:17:38 GMT

Well, sorry if I misundertood you, but I think you wanna do a "normal backup" like your personal files and folders, dont you?!
You could get a cd-burner software as a Nero or Cd Creator and do it quickly...

Re: XP Home Backup

fraheato — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:43:51 GMT

Yes, that's right. just to back up files, settings etc. I was going to back up to a Freecom USB storage device, but as Back Up isn't listed in System Tools, am unable to do so.

Any advice please?

Re: XP Home Backup

kee-lo_ — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:13:07 GMT

Nero's the best

Re: XP Home Backup

gfaelli — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:12:55 GMT

Yes, that's right. just to back up files, settings etc.  I was going to back up to a Freecom USB storage device, but as Back Up isn't listed in System Tools, am unable to do so.

Any advice please?

So, go to http://www.nero.com, download the softare and start to "burn your backups"..

Re: XP Home Backup

kee-lo_ — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:33:15 GMT

Can you do that on the demo?

Re: XP Home Backup

fraheato — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:35:50 GMT

Thanks very much, will have a look at Nero.

Thank you for your help

Frankie

Re: XP Home Backup

gfaelli — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:45:14 GMT

You probably right...I'm not sure about the demo...
But also you can also use the Sonic (burner cd/dvd software) wich comes with your vaio (at least in my case).

And there's one freeware to burn your cds e dvds (i haven't tried yet 😞 http://www.binartisan.com/binacd/setup.exe

Re: XP Home Backup

rich912 — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:48:03 GMT

There are plenty of free backup utilities. Have a look here, or do a Google.

Re: XP Home Backup

kee-lo_ — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:06:36 GMT

Deepburner is excellent

Re: XP Home Backup

fraheato — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:19:44 GMT

Thanks for the information, am going to have a look at these programmes and see which is the best

Frankie

Re: XP Home Backup

mvanwambeke — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:35:01 GMT

if you go to the vaio recovery utility , you can select to recover your computer and then press on the options button.

There you have then the option to restore the support folders

This should do the trick

Re: XP Home Backup

fraheato — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:25:50 GMT

Thanks very much for everyone's help