I read something the other day about an option I could select in the   
   XP BACKUP Program that in an emergency could restore Everything if I   
   had made the BACKUP with that setting.   
      
   I can't remember now what the setting was and didn't see anything in   
   BACKUP's Advanced settings that reminded me of what I had read the   
   other day while I was reading Windows Help and Support.   
      
   It took 6 tries to BACKUP my C: HDD before I could figure out how to   
   get BACKUP to work.   
      
   It failed the first time because I wanted to use a FAT32 HDD to save   
   it on and it wanted NTFS, so it quit with an Error after it had   
   written 4GBs of the BACKUP.   
      
   When I figured out how it works, it First wants to take time to COUNT   
   all of the files before writing the Backup and then about 15 minutes   
   later starts writing them to the exteral drive I chose to save it on.   
      
   I figured out to use the selection to Choose what I wanted in the   
   BACKUP instead of selecting the All Files setting which hadn't seemed   
   to work for me.   
      
   When I was trying to figure out what I was doing wrong after one of   
   my failures, I read about something called SYSTEM STATE, but when I   
   tried selecting that once and the BACKUP failed again, so when I   
   did get the BACKUP to work I didn't select the SYSTEM STATE option.   
      
   I am glad the folks in this Windows XP echo introduced me to Acronis   
   True Image a long time ago.   
      
   A 330GB External HDD was the first HDD I bought for making BACKUPs.   
      
   It came Formatted for FAT32 and I've kept it that way in case I ever   
   have a need to move more data that what a DVD or Thumbdrive could   
   have on them, and the data was going to be put on a older computer   
   which had a FAT32 HDD in it.   
      
   My last try was a Failure too.   
   The Log shows a bunch of files wasn't copied.   
      
   I tried at least, but I will stay with TI for my BACKUPs for now.   
      
   ... Its a fine line between fishing and standing still   
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