Dos anyone know how to back up the hard drive on my computer.  I have Windows XP.  Thanks?
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Windows XP comes with a backup utility but it isn't installed by default.  See the article below for a verbose explanation on how to access and use this program.
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Do not delete the C drive. Use this drive to store files.\n\nIf you want you can reinstall XP, but that is a different situation.
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You don't believe in backing up your drive?  Sorry, I might sound harsh, but backing up your harddrive is just as important as saving your word docs...
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I would highly recommend CasperXP. It's saved me a few times now and makes a complete bootable clone of the disk. The best thing is that it can backup whilst you are still using XP and has smart clone technology so that on subsequent backups it will only backup changed sectors of the hard disk reducing backup time considerably. It will work with external USB hard disks.
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Here's a great 'how to'\nhttp://www.lifehacker.com/software/windows/geek-to-live-how-to-format-your-hard-drive-and-install-windows-xp-from-scratch-157578.php\n\n///
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If you have the original ME CD, I would recommend recovering it by formating your harddrive and reinstall your ME.  You may want to make 2 partitions (C & D) and install ME and XP seperately.  ME as FAT32 while XP as NTFS.  Good luck.  Hope you backup all your data before.  Otherwise, use the bootdisk to go to C drive and backup everything onto an external harddrive via USB or firewire.
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format your c drive and do a clean installation of XP... make sure you have the drivers for your monitor...
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Well if you formated you HD then you really cant back up the info inless you have a professional recover the info or slave it to another computer and use a 3 party program. You can find them online. \n\nIf you have already formated the drive, What i would attempt to just suck it up and try reinstalling the OS. if it doesnt boot then there must be something up with the boot loader or a currupted file somewhere on the system which is making it reboot. Also is the xp disk that you are using a valid disk and not a copy. if its a copy it might have been during the copy that a file got currpted. Also is the hard in good condition. If there is a bad sector or section on the hard drive that is not mark, when it load the os it will place important file in that sector which in turn cause issues. try running check disk to make it mark the bad sector on the hard drive.  You also might want to try using the ASR on the xp disk. The will try and recover your os. But no gurentee that it will.
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You will never get rid of all the files and windows has a habit of making really big clutters in your computer.  If you want good performance out of your computer, my advice would be to back up everything on your computer that you want to keep and format your hard drive.  Then install the version of windows that you want to use and re-install all other programs and the files you backed up.
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Try to get an external USB drive with a cd rom and do it from there, since XP is still running.  Also a very strong recomendation, get another copy of win xp and make sure that it has the Service Pack 2.  And if none of these work, try to get your HD out of the case and make the instalation on someone else computer, putting your HD as a slave and running the instalation on it.\n\nHope I´ve given you a guide to solving your issue.
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if you are running windows XP you can use the file and settings transfer wizzard to make a back-up copy of your computer. then you can do a fresh install and using the back-up copy and the file and setting transfer wizzard you can put your info back on the puter. the wizzard will let you choose what files you wan to keep. you could also use your external drive to back-up to. create new folders on your external and move the files you want there.
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try usin a ghost, copy the entire content of your original hard drive to your new one, i do this quite often, i back up my hard drive and just incase something bad happens i can just copy the entire thing from my back up drive
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Stick the Microsoft operating system disk in the computer and reinstall telling it to reformat the hard drive. Before you do that, be sure to backup what ever you want to save. Works like a charm.
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You should just use NT backup program that comes with Windows.  It is located in Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Backup.  then chose what you want to backup and where.
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You can't put Windows xp on drive D:,it goes on drive C:. You must redo the format on drive C:. To get your drive D: back,load a windows 98 startup floppy into the A: drive. Once it goes through the load process it will change drive D: to drive E: This will change once you have loaded your windows xp into the system. Drive E: will revert back to drive D:.
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Buy a new harddisk\nUnplug the old one from the motherboard.\nInsert the new one.\nInstall Windows XP SP2.\nAttach the old harddisk to the 2nd channel.\nCopy data from the old one to the new one.\nUnplug the old harddisk.\nNow you have a backup as well as a WinXP without virus/spywares.
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Your HD is to small, If your Total HD is 2GB, It take 2GB of Total Partition  to put XP on the Disk.\nHarry